In Sofia on Friday 9 March, the ministerial conference on the multiannual financial framework (MFF) brought to light North-South and East-West divides between the member states, who were called upon to resolve the following equation: how, with the budgetary gap linked to Brexit, can the new political priorities – security, migration and innovation – be paid for without having to trim too much off the amounts reserved for the traditional policies, such as the common agriculture policy...