France, Germany and the UK, who have put the cat among the pigeons by working on a common defence paper, have been joined by Belgium.
Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgium Prime Minister, on Thursday took part in an impromptu meeting of the big three before a scheduled dinner for all 25 governments to discuss defence issues.
The meeting is being interpreted as a direct snub to the Italian Presidency which apparently knew nothing of it.
When asked by journalists about the defence meet...
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