"We are in a much better atmosphere than after Salzburg" and an agreement on the orderly withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union is"near".
It is in these terms that European Council President Donald Tusk concluded the European summit on Thursday 18 October, which had begun the previous day with a dinner for the EU27 to focus on the state of progress on the negotiation leading to Brexit(see EUROPE 12119). He nevertheless deemed that the progress at this stage was"not...