Member states may well be struggling with lofty issues such as the EU Constitution or whether they have any intention of sharing intelligence with one another but when it comes down to it, all that is important is where you sit at the table.
And this is just what the Irish EU Presidency has been finding out.
Dublin has suggested that for the coming European Council at the end of this week just EU heads of state and government should be the ones to sit at an "inner table" while the...
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