Post-Brexit UK always welcome back in EU, says Timmermans Timmermans writes that British scepticism towards the EU was an asset to the bloc. Photograph Timmermans writes that British scepticism towards the EU was an asset to the bloc. Photograph president, writes that British scepticism of the EU had been an asset to the bloc the British attitude through the decades to EU membership. “It helps you to create a union and single market but not the EU’s decision-making institutions, beyond December 2020 European fishing fleets and, more significantly, the EU demand that the British government sign up always been in two minds about the EU. I wish you had stuck to that