Officials and diplomats in Brussels are watching the disintegration of Boris Johnson’s government with great interest and no doubt a degree of glee.
From his time reporting on the bloc for the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper to becoming the poster boy for Brexit, the prime minister is not a popular man at EU HQ.
But, putting the past aside, there is also the very current dispute about how to fix the treaty which governs post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland.
The line-up of would-be successors to Johnson won’t necessarily take a softer stance on the issue.
So while most in the EU won’t miss Johnson, they also talk about fears that No 10 could soon be occupied by someone they’d regard as “even worse”.
Source: BBC