Perhaps it was the late hour or lack of air that prompted the outburst in Brussels. It was last Friday morning at 1am, and a weary chancellor Angela Merkel was briefing equally weary journalists about the progress of the June summit. The dozing company jerked awake when they realised the German leader was being berated, politely but insistently, by a Croatian journalist. Why, he wanted to know, was Dr Merkel not flying to his country two days later to celebrate its entry into the EU as its 28th member?
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