The 'De Gaulle moment' that many had speculated about before Wednesday...
BRUSSELS - The ‘De Gaulle moment’ that many had speculated about before Wednesday night’s Brexit summit did not come, but President Emmanuel Macron still lived up to the spirit of the post-war French leader by throwing his weight around the EU table.
Unusually, the EU’s two most powerful leaders failed to reach a Franco-German compromise at their bilateral meeting in Brussels before the summit with the other EU leaders started, diplomats said. At the end of the day, a typically European compromise to extend the Brexit talks to Oct. 31 - neither long nor short - was hatched. But on Thursday morning, Germany’s irritation burst into the open.
A French diplomatic source said Macron was not content with face-saving compromises with Germany, but wanted to work with others such as the Dutch, Danes and Swedes to get his way. One senior EU official said it had been a bad night for French diplomacy and that Macron, having pushed hard for a short extension, had been forced to compromise.
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