It should have been a quiet week, with the EU basking in the glory of its “total unity”on Brexit guidelines and the UK distracted by its upcoming general election.
But European Council president Donald Tusk was forced to step in with a call for “discretion, moderation, mutual respect and the maximum of goodwill”after heated exchanges between London and Brussels.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May accused the EU of deliberately undermining the election with what she sees as a...