The Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union has just seven useful weeks left. Then, on 1 January 2026, a small Mediterranean island which is home to nearly 940,000 people and which has been divided into two by a demarcation line for more than 50 years, will follow on from a large State from central Europe and a medium-sized State from north-eastern Europe. The trio of the Polish, Danish and Cypriot Presidencies has been active once before, between July 2011 and December 2012,...