The European Union is no longer a club of a few French-speaking politicians who know each other well.
Nowadays, even the smallest informal meetings involve dozens of attendees including delegations and translators.
The more the Council’s negotiations resemble a small parliament, the more important are the informal coalitions of states which share common interests and are willing to help each other.
The Visegrad Group (V4), a sort of central European Benelux, was establ...
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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.