'Tough guy' Macron can point to some summit success
Macron may be new to the game, but he would have appreciated that once European Council President Donald Tusk suggested some kind of flextension, he was always going to be in a battle to get his way entirely
The golden rule in political committees is that a vote should always be avoided, unless and until a vote is what you need to drive a change or get what you want. The European Council is such a political committee, albeit it’s the one at the top of the political tree, with the strongest egos and the most extreme potential for disagreement.
Yet, thus far in the Brexit negotiations, the council has held ...
