Where a prime minister or president spends their morning on the day of a European Council summit can say a lot.
You don’t want to sleep in and miss any of the political deal making that happens over breakfast, before all 27 national leaders have even sat down together in the same room.
In recent European Union (EU) summits, a bloc of leaders pushing for tougher migration policies has begun meeting privately before formal talks begin. Led by the prime ministers of Italy, Denmark and the Netherlands, the group has swollen to 14 members – among them Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz.
“It’s a pressure group that wants to put proposals on the table to make the EU’s migration policy much stricter, which I think is necessary,” Belgium’s hard right prime minister Bart de Wever said of the pre-
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