“I think everyone agrees that, by the end of the year, we may have perhaps spent a few nights here in order to reach an agreement”, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten said on Friday 19 June in Brussels, after the European Summit, where the next long-term European budget was discussed. The laborious debate between the Heads of State or Government in the morning at least had the merit of producing a near-consensus on the need to reach an agreement by the end of 2026, as the conclusions...