The president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has been the voice of hope for years in regard to Brexit. Understood this as who most clearly reflects the feeling of a part of the continent (increasingly smaller), which prays every night for something to happen in the United Kingdom, make them change their minds and choose to continue within the Union. Tusk, however, is also the one who speaks louder and louder in Europe when it comes to telling truths and reading the booklet to 'iliberal' and populist leaders of all kinds. 90% of the time, the one that prevails is the first Tusk, but when he loses his patience, the one who explodes is the second. And that has happened this morning.

"What is at stake is not winning a stupid guilt game. It is the future of Europe and the United Kingdom , as well as the safety and interests of our people. You do not want an agreement, you do not want an extension, you do not want to revoke [ Article 50 to curb Brexit], quo vadis ?, Boris Johnson, "the Polish prime minister has snapped through his Twitter account. No one dominates in Brussels the art of tweets like Polish. Take care of the expressions, the moment and when there are sound adjectives, they have a purpose. In this case, copy the headlines of all media on the other side of the channel.

The reasons are no secret. Johnson has been dizzy the partridge for months and sending contradictory and outgoing messages of all kinds . He insists that there will be no extension beyond October 31 and that he will take his country out of the EU no matter what happens, good or bad. But at the same time, his Government has to follow the mandate of Westminster, which requires an extension beyond November 1 if there is no closed agreement with the 27 in the middle of this month. But what has made Tusk jump is a message that Downing Street has circulated this morning among British journalists following the phone call that Johnson and Chancellor Merkel have maintained.

According to that message, attributable to a source from Johnson's team, the conversation would have "shown a new position on the part of the EU," and the chancellor would have "made it clear that an agreement is overwhelmingly unlikely ." That very controversial reading draws a Merkel saying that "if Germany wanted to leave the EU, it would have no problem, but that the United Kingdom cannot do it without Northern Ireland staying in the Customs Union." Always according to that message distributed by Downing Street, these alleged claims of Berlin would have been "very revealing", as they would show that "an agreement is essentially impossible, not now but never", attacking the EU "for torpedoing the Friday Peace Accords Holy".

This morning, when asked about the issue, the chief spokeswoman for the European Commission, Mina Andreeva, said she has no record that Merkel said those things and has ironic about the apparent collapse of the negotiations. "How can they have been broken if they are going to see each other this afternoon here?" He said.

The controversy coincides with a planned trip by the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, to London, where he will meet Johnson on a continental tour that also passes through Berlin and Paris. The European Parliament must also ratify any agreement that is closed, and the deputies are openly hostile to the prime minister's strategies.

Amid the cross accusations, the British Government published its latest 155-page report on the "no deal" preparations , among the growing suspicion that Johnson is following the strategy developed by his advisor Dominic Cummings, a supporter from the start of leaving the EU without an agreement (to the point of turning that option into the promise of the Conservative Party in case of early elections).

The leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, joined the barahúnda, calling on the government to get up from the negotiating table and calling the EU "a monstrous project that has to be killed."

The EU had given Boris Johnson an ultimatum to change its Brexit plan before the weekend and stipulate whether it is possible to negotiate an agreement. According to internal documents revealed by The Guardian, Brussels would have raised up to nine objections to Johnson's plan for the two Irlandas, most of them related to the proposal for Northern Ireland to maintain a "regultory alignment" but be outside the customs union .

The belligerent attitude of the "premier" was condemned by the Labor Party as "a cynical attempt to sabotage the negotiations." "Johnson will never take responsibility for his own ruling in pushing for a credible deal," said Brexit spokesman Keith Starmer.

Scotland's main minister and independence leader Nicola Sturgeon also loaded the inks on Johnson, who she accused of "a calculated attempt to charge the blame (on Brussels) for the Brexit fiasco."

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