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European leaders are at loggerheads – but not in the way you might think
There is agreement between liberal and far-right 'populist' EU leaders over strengthening the repressive Fortress Europe measures against refugees and asylum-seekers. They just disagree about how to do it, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
CRISIS MANAGEMENT: French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker and German Chancellor Angela Merkel

A dozen European leaders are to meet at an informal crisis gathering in Brussels on Sunday.

That’s two years to the day since the results of the UK referendum piled up showing people had voted to leave the European Union.

We were told then, and conventional wisdom has repeated it since, that the process would pit a fractured British government against a united bloc of the remaining “EU27.”

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