There’s been some good news from Brussels .

No, I mean it.

I’ll never agree that we’re doing the right thing by quitting the EU. Call me a remoaner if you like, but nothing that’s happened since the referendum has convinced me to change my mind.

What’s come close, however, is the childish attitude of some of the EU’s representatives. EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, and Guy Verhofstadt, the EU Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator, didn’t want to accept that the EU was a voluntary club.

If someone wants to leave then you don’t have to like it but you still have to find a way to make it work. We’re all still neighbours, after all. And any EU state is entitled to quit – that’s actually in the rules.

But attempts by the UK to make Brexit work were met by sneers and sarcasm.

Prime Minister Theresa May delivered detailed speeches setting out the UK’s proposals, to be answered 20 minutes later by statement from Brussels complaining that they still didn’t know what the UK wants – the equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting “can’t hear you!”

Of course, our own Government isn’t perfect. But when Boris or another member of the gang acts like a fool, we in this country are pretty quick to call them out on it.

The un-statesmanlike behaviour of some people who depend on the EU bureaucracy for their salaries has been largely ignored – or seen, bizarrely, as evidence that the UK has got things wrong. It’s really not.

But there are signs that common sense is prevailing at last.

Last week the EU agreed that a transition period should last until the end of 2020.

It also agreed to begin talks about a trade and security deal.

And there was a boost for Theresa May as EU leaders backed her tough stance against Russia, which the UK government believes is behind a nerve agent attack in the UK.

This is particularly good news because Brexit day is getting closer.

We quit the EU at 11pm on March 29, 2019.

In other words, once we reach this Thursday there will be exactly one year to go.

That doesn’t mean everything will change overnight. It seems very likely that changes will be phased on over a transition period (and very sensible that is too).

But time is running out for an agreement on how all that will work, not least because the Commons is expected to hold a vote on the plans in October this year.

So it’s great that the EU is at last getting its act together.