I dont know what they are doing though the fact that 12 EU states revolted against Barniers Transition proposals suggests his wings have been clipped. The EU Barnier plan seems to be to damage our economy by uncertainty and drive everything to a cliff edge by October in the hope we capitulate because no solutions have been agreed, or to make us concede everything in desperation, or from the the UK for hardliners to walk away from the talks or hope the EU states demand Barnier to make an agreement more in our favour.
It’s certainly high stakes not helped by lots of fluff and bluster from our side and dogmatic diktats from Barnier And all this is damaging our economy.
The EU do drive things they don’t like to the wire.