Hopes of a bold commission likely to be dashed as changing of the guard hinges upon compromiseIt was the morning after the night before. Following a marathon six hours of debate in Brussels, Britain had been granted a Brexit extension to 31 October – an end-date that none of the EU’s leaders had wanted.
What had emerged that April evening was a tough-fought compromise between the French president Emmanuel Macron’s demand for a short Brexit delay and the German chancellor Angela Merkel’s wish for the UK to be given a year to reflect again.
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Source: theguardian.com