The summit of June 22-23 saw old and new protagonists in the limelight. Among them, Tusk, Juncker, the Macron-Merkel tandem. Full agreement on defence, security and fight on terrorism, while migration registers disunited positions. Brexit: May “softened” by electoral failure
The summit of reunited Europe, the European Council of old and new protagonists finally transmits the image of a EU committed to jointly respond to the many challenges it is being confronted with, without giving in to internal discouragement nor to external pressure. Precisely one year after the British referendum that established the Brexit (June 23 2016), the meeting of the heads of Government and State closed after two days of back-to-back debates, concrete results, and some minor diplomatic skirmishes; while on the migration front, the most thorny issue on the agenda, progress is yet to be made.

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