(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- It’s hard to find any winners in the Brexit saga, but Weyand might be the closest there is: Her priority was to keep the European Union united in its negotiations with the U.K., and it’s a task she stuck to without wavering. When the British Parliament decided the 584-page Brexit deal was skewed in the EU’s favor and rejected it three times, she showed a politician’s flair for the public put-down, dismissing some of the U.K.’s Brexit policies as “Groundhog Day.”
Although the deal has yet to get final U.K. approval, Weyand’s successful negotiations earned her a promotion: heading up EU trade policy at a time when the bloc’s relations with the U.S. have never been so tense. With President Trump determined to take action against the $109 billion U.S. trade deficit with the EU, Weyand will have to avoid punitive measures on car exports, an almost catastrophic prospect for the European economy.
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