European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker tried to lighten the mood after the EU summit on Brexit, but the Dutch PM got the only laugh.
The press auditorium at the EU Council in Brussels on Tuesday laughed out loud when a BBC reporter asked EU leaders what the UK had left going for it amid the turbulent events following last week’s vote to leave Europe.
“It has the BBC”, Dutch PM Mark Rutte joked.
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.