Europe’s existential challenges
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The summits of multinational organisations, like the EU Council or the G7, are usually stage-managed with final communiqué traditionally agreed in principle by participants well in advance. Donald Trump made sure this no longer remained the case when, afterEurope’s existential challenges
The summits of multinational organisations, like the EU Council or the G7, are usually stage-managed with final communiqué traditionally agreed in principle by participants well in advance. Donald Trump made sure this no longer remained the case when, after agreeing in principle on the wording of the final communiqué of the last G7 meeting held in Canada, he felt offended by comments made by Justin Trudeau. So Trump tweeted that he was withdrawing his consent to the final post-conference communiqué. But for real melodrama, hype, theatrics and lack of substance one has to analyse the last EU Council summit held in Brussels in late June. The media had been buzzing for weeks about the importance of this summit. The main item on the agenda, of course, was the problem of migration into the EU that has given rise to populist moments in various countries. The new Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte knew that nothing but a show of strength at the summit on the need for changes to the Dublin Treaty would satisfy his sponsors the Five Star Movement and the Lega who now lead a strong coalition. Conte made it clear that Italy could no longer tolerate a situation where it was responsible... Read more