Coming out of the informal dinner on the evening of Thursday 28 September, which preceded the ‘Digital Summit’ of Tallinn, Donald Tusk was delighted to announce that he had just been tasked with establishing the “leaders’ agenda for 2017-2019” (see EUROPE 11873). Nobody took any offence at this: it was, indeed, a job that quite naturally falls to a permanent President of the European Council. However, behind this seemingly benign announcement was undoubtedly hidden the beginnings...