EU leaders divided over talks with Putin
Divisions emerged at the European Council summit in Brussels over European Council President António Costa's outreach to the Kremlin, overshadowing planned discussions on the trade deficit with China.
Divisions over European Council President António Costa's outreach to the Kremlin dominated the European Council summit in Brussels, eclipsing the evening that was supposed to be devoted to confronting the trade deficit with China, according to participants.
On the Brussels Playbook Week Ender podcast, host Sarah Wheaton was joined by Chief EU Correspondent Zoya Sheftalovich, trade reporter Carlo Martuscelli, Berlin correspondent Nette Nöstlinger and Senior Defense Correspondent Jacopo Barigazzi to break down the divisions and look ahead to how next year's elections affect today's talks.
Also this week, Anne McElvoy brought together two leading figures to reflect on the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum and where the EU-U.K. relationship may go next. Jeremy Hunt, a close Cabinet colleague of David Cameron who became the U.K.'s foreign secretary and chancellor in the years after the vote, recently authored “Can We Be Rich Again?” — a book about Britain's economic problems since Brexit. Peter Altmaier, who was Angela Merkel's right-hand man as head of the German Chancellery and served as her finance and economy minister during the fraught Brexit negotiations between the EU27 and the UK, also shared his perspective.
