EU puts forward five-year plan focusing on 'protection'

EU leaders on Thursday (20 June) night agreed to an ambitious agenda for the bloc intended to serve as a benchmark for decisions in the next five years.

But when one reads the 'new strategic agenda' through the prism of reality, it is hard to see how the EU will be able to act on it - given the existing deep divisions among member states.

Precisely those divisions foreshadow a bloc th...