After a weekend spent drinking fancy wine and dancing in the hip nightclubs of Berlin at the EU birthday party, the German EU presidency's hangover will begin on Wednesday when chancellor Angela Merkel faces MEPs in Brussels on why her birthday declaration was drafted by a secret coterie and why it was signed by just three people instead of the 27 EU leaders.
But for any analysts convinced the EU is in the spasm of a constitutional crisis, the European Commission plans to unveil a €975...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.