John Downing
Opinion
Marathon EU talks turn into a power struggle for future control of the agenda
There is an old Brussels postcard dating from the 1970s which frames the best identikit European man by rehashing every possible national stereotype. Ideally, he - and this is a male stereotype - would be... sober as an Irishman, humble as a Frenchman, as humorous as a German, as organised as an Italian, as generous as a Dutchman and have the cooking skills of a Brit.
