The European Council president has made EU leaders’ summits more informal and strategic. Negotiations over the EU’s next seven-year budget will test whether his approach can survive a fight over numbers, national interests and painstaking detail.

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Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.

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Ministers are ready to match the EU’s 45 per cent levy to avoid pain of Made in Europe proposals

The political scientist argues that, in the current parliamentary term, the European Parliament’s informal pro-European centrist coalition has effectively given way to a minority government led by the Christian Democrats.

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