How they conned the UK regulators to give them access to every major UK airport is quite beyond me.
Good point. I presume a deal was done in the back room of smoky bar by a few EU civil servants hopelessly distracted by good looking women (and probably a boys), as it always is. They can do this because the criminals who run the EU have no oversight and are totally unaccountable. Why should they care if the EU has not received a reasonable quid-pro-quo, after all, their gravy train will run forever? The deal agreement to allow unfettered access to the EU will last as long as these criminals stay in charge. As the first whiff of a problem, the great and good will be whisked off first class for a meeting in [name somewhere nice served by the pirates] for a two week extensive briefing and intelligence gathering process so a rapid decision can be taken in the next ten years or so.