From our correspondent in Brussels
"As my grandmother said to me, to succeed, you have to try." It is with these words that Charles Michel summed up Friday evening the failure of the extraordinary summit devoted to the next budget of the European Union (EU) for the period 2021-2027. But does the President of the European Council only know how many meetings in Twenty-Seven will be necessary to find a compromise? Seven years ago, European leaders had to do it twice. This time, nothing suggests that a second meeting would make it possible. Because the summit last weekend helped to harden positions instead of making them converge. "What would be good, confided at the beginning of last week a European diplomat, is that this summit makes certain things irreversible." We are far, very far.
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