The EU may “always regret” Brexit, as Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker lamented in his State of the Union speech this week (see EUROPE 11861), but it is determined to get over it.
The European Commission has begun churning out a spate of legislative proposals on everything from trade to political party funding, intent on getting back to business after a summer of Brexit discontent. Mr Juncker’s annual set-piece State of the Union speech this week marked a deliberate attempt to...