According to commentators, the Prime Minister of Belgium, Bart De Wever, is the big winner of the European summit of 18 and 19 December, which resulted in an agreement by the EU27 on a €90 billion loan to Ukraine from the European Union budget (see EUROPE B13776A1).
Having achieved the feat of achieving unanimity in his country, the Flemish nationalist spent two months standing up to his German, Nordic and Baltic counterparts, all of whom were keen to make Russia pay for the destruction...