EU Heads of State or Government began a marathon, on Thursday 20 February in Brussels, to try to find a compromise on the main elements of the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for the period 2021-2027 (see EUROPE B12429A1).
The differences between the Twenty-Seven EU countries seem so great that it was impossible to predict at the time of going to press whether an agreement could be reached on Friday 21 February on this potentially explosive issue.
EU leaders did not seem to want...