The EU-Ukraine summit in October, with European Council president Charles Michel (l), Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen (Photo: Council of the European Union)

EU summit focus on Covid-19 and Russia This WEEK

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by Eszter Zalan, Brussels,

EU leaders are meeting on Wednesday and Thursday (15-16 December) for their traditional end-of-the-year summit in Brussels.

This will be the first European Council for the new German chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has big shoes to fill at the table where the 27 leaders sit together in a sort of group therapy -to fight, debate, reminisce, make decisions (sometimes) and kick the can down the road (more often).

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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