Many European Union diplomats and officials think that the prime minister needs to emulate Margaret Thatcher’s famous approach to European leaders when securing a British rebate at Fontainebleau in 1984. Today’s summit might be that “handbagging” moment, coming 24 hours after she scraped through a vote of no confidence. “The way ahead is very narrow. We are in a communication exercise,” said the aide to one EU prime minister. The conclusions are far from the legal guarantees that she is said to want, but could show, in terms of…

Source: The Times December 13, 2018 12:01 UTC