Political leaders Emmanuel Macron and Sebastian Kurtz attend June 2018 EU Council meeting. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved.Every three months or so, 26 males and 3 females meet together somewhere on our continent to make big decisions about the future of…us, European citizens, including those with a British passport.
The European Council, in charge of defining EU political priorities and comprising of the heads of state or government of the member states (plus its President Donald Tusk) met in Brussels on June 28-29.
It was supposed to be a pivotal meeting: the council had to finalise the Brexit agreement before opening the discussion in the British and European Parliaments, and to finally agree on a long-overdue reform of the EU policy on refugees.
