Last WEEK of UK in EU?

German finance chief Wolfgang Schaeuble has said the eurozone would do what it can to “contain” the economic fallout of either scenario.

That is what eurozone and EU finance ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Thursday and Friday (16-17 June), are likely to be asked about by press.

That is also what the Dutch finance minister, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, is likely to be asked about by MEPs in the economic affairs committee on Tuesday.

For his part, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker will meet Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank chief, and Gordon Brown, a former British PM who is campaigning for the Remain side, in Brussels on Monday.

But the votes are being won and lost amid tabloid scaremongering and political punch-ups on the other side of the North Sea.

The commission is expected, on Wednesday, to unveil a new counter-terrorism strategy and to issue an assessment on whether the EU-Turkey migration deal is working.

The week could also see Poland issue its formal response to Commission complaints on abuse of rule of law.

But Juncker’s most eye-catching assignment will be a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin at a business forum in St Petersburg on Thursday.

EU diplomats say the roll-over of Russia economic sanctions for another six months is a done deal.

But Juncker’s “selective engagement” with Russia, which is to include talks on the divisive Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, has prompted concern in eastern Europe that the sanctions regime will crumble in future.

If France and Germany decline to go ahead on visa-free travel for Ukraine at an EU Council meeting on Tuesday, that would prompt more concern again.

Palestinian refugees will also feature on the agenda, with a UN special envoy to meet top EU officials and with EU neighbourhood commissioner Johannes Hahn to visit Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

France is trying to restart Arab-Israeli peace talks. But Israel’s right-wing government has shown little interest so far.