European leaders did not, as expected, achieve a breakthrough on Friday 14 December on the asylum package and the 5 more or less advanced legislative texts that the European Commission had asked them to endorse (qualifications, resettlement, reception conditions for asylum seekers, European Asylum Agency and the Eurodac Regulation).
In a much longer than expected discussion on the subject, which lasted about an hour and a half, they failed to overcome their differences both on the splitting...