The British EU presidency is to cancel the traditional formal meeting of European leaders in October in favour of an informal discussion on the future of the bloc's social model, German news agencies reported on Thursday (4 August).
The meeting, which would normally take place in Brussels, was supposed to concentrate on how to fund the EU in the future after the budget summit failed in June. Instead, this issue is expected to be largely left to the Austrian presidency beginning in Janua...
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