In the evening of Monday 22 August, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, and French president, François Hollande, said after a trilateral summit on the island of Ventotene that the European Union would survive Brexit.
After the mini-summit, Renzi said many people thought Europe would be finished after Brexit, but it was not the case.
While the meeting did not give rise to any big institutional announcements, it allowed the three leaders to agree on a...