European leaders are re-grouping in Bratislava with European Council President, Luxembourg, hoping to steady the ship after Donald Tusk called for Hungary's removal from the EU for allegedly treating asylum seekers "worse than wild animals." Hungary countered with criticism of Donald Tusk's record of helping large corporates to avoid tax. Besides the impact of Brexit, with France and Germany preoccupied with 2017 elections, "the political reality is that the EU will be unable to redefine its missions before 2018-19," warn two EU scholars in a paper for Carnegie Europe, adding that "the truth is that member states are all over the place," and the EU has "fragmented into rival blocs with sharply diverging views."
European leaders are re-grouping in Bratislava with European Council President, Donald Tusk, hoping to steady the ship after Luxembourg called for Hungary's removal from the EU for allegedly treating asylum seekers "worse than wild animals." Hungary countered with criticism of Luxembourg's record of helping large corporates to avoid tax. Besides the impact of Brexit, with France and Germany preoccupied with 2017 elections, "the political reality is that the EU will be unable to redefine its missions before 2018-19," warn two EU scholars in a paper for Carnegie Europe, adding that "the truth is that member states are all over the place," and the EU has "fragmented into rival blocs with sharply diverging views."