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The EU summit on Thursday and Friday will focus on a variety of urgent points, together with migration, economics, safety and Brexit. But what do totally different nations want from the Brussels talks and the place does Brexit stand of their priorities?
Germany: Jenny Hill, Berlin
It's tempting to think about what Angela Merkel and Theresa May would possibly say to at least one one other in a personal second on the margins of the summit.
Both leaders, in any case, face dissent and open insurrection from inside their very own ranks. And each are in a bind over borders.
But that is precisely why it is unlikely that the German chancellor can pay a lot consideration to Brexit this week. She's far too busy making an attempt to understand her long-promised European migration techniqueand saving her personal political pores and skin.
Her fragile authorities hangs precariously in the steadiness.
And it might collapse if she will't return dwelling with a answer sturdy sufficient to see off the insurrection from her inside ministerand coalition companionwho's threatening to unilaterally impose higher migration controls at the German border.
In such severe occasions right here, the drawback of Brexit appears far a much less important challenge to preoccupied lawmakers.
But it is not that Germany is not . Industryparticularly the mighty automotive manufacturing foyeris beside itself at the considered a no-deal Brexit.
In current days, Joachim Lang, the director basic of the Federation of German Industries, warned that the UK is "hurtling towards a disorderly Brexit". He also stated that solely by remaining in the customs union and single market can the Irish border query be answered.
Most right here want extra readability from Britain about the way it perceives its future relationship with the EU, however Mrs May will encounter sturdy resistance to any proposals that even trace at the reinstatement of a border.
Mrs Merkel, on the different hand, whose expertise was formed by her personal adolescence behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany, now finds herself in an EU brazenly discussing how and the place to strengthenand even reimposeEurope's boundaries.
France: Lucy Williamson, Paris
France goes into this summit with two considerations uppermost in its thoughts.
The first is President Macron's beloved long-term mission to tie the eurozone economies extra intently collectively.
The German chancellor appears to have lastly agreed in precept to a watered-down model of his plan, together with a frequent finances for the eurozone and additional measures to assist nations going through a recession, although the particulars are nonetheless imprecise. This summit might be a likelihood to place their concepts to the different EU nations.
The different challenge dominating French minds is migration.
President Macron angered Italy earlier this month by saying it was "irresponsible" and "cynical" to refuse a rescue ship carrying unlawful migrants. Italy accused France of hypocrisy, in return.
The challenge of the way to relieve strain on the front-line states in Europe's migrant disaster is divisive.
In 2015, the former French authorities promised to take 30,000 refugees from Greece and Italy, however a yr later little greater than 1,000 had arrived. And whereas the French authorities backs proposals for closed processing centres in front-line states, it doesn't want to see them on French territory.
With all this occupying French minds, there's little room to commit a lot consideration to Brexit.
France has caught fairly firmly to the EU line of "no cherry-picking", saying that freedom of products, companies and folks can't be separated.
But there are these in Paris who imagine that urge for food is rising to search out wiggle room on frictionless items trading, to guard French exporters to the UK. Though there's little indication that Paris will budge on the challenge of a "passport" for the City of London and its monetary companies.
Spain: Guy Hedgecoe, Madrid
Spain's new prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has made clear he intends to respect commitments his nation has made to the EU and the European mission basically.
But with a vary of different points occupying his agendasignificantly rising numbers of migrants reaching Spanish shores and tensions in CataloniaBrexit is just not a principal precedence for the socialist premier.
However, he will be unable to disregard the influence the UK's exit might have on Gibraltar, whose British possession Spain disputes.
At the summit, Mr Sánchez is predicted to report on the standing of current negotiations between London and Madrid over Gibraltar's future standing. Those talks, as a consequence of conclude by October, have centered on the doable shared use of the rock's airport and the change of tax info on residents.
The EU has agreed that Spain can veto a Brexit accord whether it is sad with the preparations for Gibraltar.
The summit would possibly supply clues as as to whether or not Mr Sánchez intends to proceed with the comparatively powerful line on Gibraltar pursued by the earlier Spanish authorities. Either approach, he'll want to shore up help from his EU companions on the challenge.
Italy: James Reynolds, Rome
To Italy's new populist authorities, Brexit is a fairly distracting sideshow.
It desires to do enterprise with a post-EU UK and it desires to make sure that the rights of Italian residents residing in the UK are protected. But past that, Italy's principal preoccupation is migration throughout the Mediterranean.
In this respect, the nation has two principal goals: to get EU nations to share the burden of sheltering those that've already reached this continent, and to stop any extra migrants from making the sea journey to Europe.
In explicit, Italy desires to eliminate the EU's Dublin Regulation, which requires migrants to be screened in the first place during which they arrive. Italy believes that this locations far an excessive amount of strain on front-line nations, together with Spain and Greece.
But Italy might face resistance from fellow populist governments in central and japanese Europe, who do not want to soak up any extra migrants.
Italy's influential Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, additionally desires the EU to just accept an Italian-Libyan plan introduced on 25 June to arrange migrant holding centres on Libya's southern borders.
In concept, migrants from Africa could be directed to those centres, and prevented from making the journey throughout the Mediterranean.
Hungary: Nick Thorpe, Budapest
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban goes into this European summit in assured, however cautious temper.
He feels he is successful the argument on migration, however he is aware of he hasn't gained it but. Brexit, for him, is already yesterday's story.
His arch-enemy, Angela Merkel, appears wounded. The new authorities in Rome shares his anti-immigrant rhetoric, as does the authorities in Vienna.
He can rely on Sebastian Kurz, the Austrian Chancellor, to beat the anti-migrant drum for the subsequent six months, as Austria holds the rotating EU presidency.
His allies in Bavaria, Horst Seehofer's CSU, are on the warpath. And the different Visegrad nations are proper behind him.
But Mr Orban is enjoying for timehe sees his actual likelihood after subsequent yr's European parliamentary elections, when he counts on an a lot larger position for populist events like his personal, and populist leaders like himself, in the working of the European Union.
In the meantime, he nonetheless has to face annoying distractions, like criticism in the European Parliament for his crackdown on human rights teams.
He'll be hoping the summit is over as shortly as doable, so he can get again to watching the soccer. He hasn't missed a match but, he informed Hungarian radio.