On Thursday 26 February, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, sent the President of the European Council, António Costa, a note on European competitiveness in which he calls on the EU to respect its key principles, such as its climate commitments and respect for the European social model, and deplores the fact that current debates are more often than not reduced to a desire for deregulation.
While Madrid was excluded from the informal breakfast on the subject organised ahead of...