Europe's middleweights fight their corner

Spain, Italy and Poland - the EU’s political middleweights - have expressed reservations over a meeting of the continent’s three big hitters.

A host of ministers and prime ministers have come out to express their worries about the British, French and German trilateral summit held earlier this week in Berlin.

Objections ranged from scepticism to agitation, with some opposing the meeting and others raising questions about its outcome - a proposal to create a vice-president of the C...