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Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform think-tank, said such a proposal had merit and could allow the Brexit talks to progress to the next phase. “There is a strong feeling among UK and EU officials that the best way to present the Brexit bill is as payments during a transition, in return for market access,” he said. “Three years of paying about £10 billion a year would mean the UK handing over a large part of what the EU wants — not all of it, but enough to create goodwill and probably to get the EU to talk about trade.”

Mit der Abkoppelung von Europa bekommt dieser Wehrbeitrag eine neue Stoßrichtung: „Die Sicherheitspolitik soll auch der Brexit-Prosperitätsagenda dienen, das Land als globale Macht aufzustellen – nicht nur als spezialisierte Militärmacht im europäischen Verbund“, sagt Sophia Besch, Expertin für Sicherheitspolitik am Center for European Reform in London.

Charles Grant, director of the think-tank the Centre for European Reform, said there was a nearly 50 per cent chance that Britain remains in a customs union with the EU indefinitely — in a move that would open up the possibility of a soft Irish border.
“If Labour as a bloc [at Westminster] decides that Britain should stay in a customs union, then there is no parliamentary majority for not being in a customs union,” he said.

Cytowana przez gazetę Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska z Centre for European Reform powiedziała, że "zazwyczaj skupiamy się na Węgrzech i Wielkiej Brytanii, ale są też inne kraje, w tym Niemcy, które nie chcą ryzykować działania przeciwko Polsce, szczególnie jeśli mogą przehandlować to za polskie poparcie w innych obszarach".

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior analyst at the Centre for European Reform, said Poland may still be open to infringement proceedings as Mr Duda approved the third bill on Common Courts. 
"The Commission will now be reluctant to go as far as recommending member states triggering Article 7 proceedings, but it will definitely want to send a signal that the case is not closed," she said. 
"It might still want to open an infringement procedure against the law on reforming of the Common Courts, if it feels there are legal grounds."

“I just don’t see the appetite for such measures among the member states,” says Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, an analyst at Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank. “And it’s not just Hungary. Germany, too, will be reluctant to isolate Poland. So the Commission might well activate Article 7, but it will likely end at that.”

Unlike think-tanks like the Centre for European Reform which knows more about the EU than the whole cabinet put together, the common characteristic of most of the Legatum trade commission seems to be not having worked at any time within the EU or even directly with it.