It was a bit of a squeeze at the EU summit last week in Sofia’s National Palace of Culture, an imposing communist relic. Six prime ministers from the west Balkan states and their entourages filled its vast hallways and stairwells, between tetchy meetings with EU leaders and even tetchier media performances. “Looking at the latest decisions of President Trump, some could think, with friends like that, who needs enemies?”, Tusk said. Both Iran and a tariff war are challenges to EU sovereignty, Emmanuel Macron of France told fellow leaders, requiring a unified response. It requires a pretty good sense of why we’re doing this and what we’re going to get out of this.”

Source: The Guardian May 19, 2018 23:03 UTC