{"id":521086,"date":"2025-10-23T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521086\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:32:11","slug":"11-things-to-watch-at-the-eu-leaders-summit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/521086\/","title":{"rendered":"11 things to watch at the EU leaders\u2019 summit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2222267844-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7378317\"  \/>Slovak PM Robert Fico\u00a0threatened to block the latest sanctions package if the EU didn\u2019t come up with a plan to help his country\u2019s struggling automotive sector first. | Marco Tacca\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>This summit will see leaders\u00a0call for that work to be \u201cintensified\u00a0\u2026 as a matter of priority,\u201d\u00a0according to draft conclusions\u00a0(and for Europe\u2019s mainstream politicians\u00a0facing a surging far right, it certainly\u00a0is\u00a0a priority).\u00a0But a Commission official told POLITICO no real breakthrough is expected on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. And finally \u2026 another day of talks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When he took up his role, Costa pledged to make European Councils one-day affairs, and not to let them drag over into two.<\/p>\n<p>So far, he\u2019s been successful. But with some officials already expecting talks to go late into the night, this time that could be a tall ask.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Gavin, Hanne Cokelaere, Zia Weise, Louise Guillot, Camille Gijs, Gregorio Sorgi, Jacopo Barigazzi and Jordyn Dahl contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovak PM Robert Fico\u00a0threatened to block the latest sanctions package if the EU didn\u2019t come up with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11783,7907,15856,1789,346,1395,6641,71617,10685,3032,473,32,5398,35,2000,299,5187,36,1824,7059,1215,2452,6657,1115,770,8106,332,7339,2663,712,2558,182,104,53,3053,1201,657,49,1220,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-521086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-antonio-costa","9":"tag-austria","10":"tag-bart-de-wever","11":"tag-belgium","12":"tag-cars","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-competitiveness","15":"tag-cop30","16":"tag-critical-raw-materials","17":"tag-czech-republic","18":"tag-defense","19":"tag-donald-trump","20":"tag-emissions","21":"tag-energy","22":"tag-eu","23":"tag-europe","24":"tag-european","25":"tag-france","26":"tag-germany","27":"tag-iceland","28":"tag-luxembourg","29":"tag-media","30":"tag-migration","31":"tag-norway","32":"tag-poland","33":"tag-raw-materials","34":"tag-russia","35":"tag-russia-sanctions","36":"tag-sanctions","37":"tag-scotland","38":"tag-slovakia","39":"tag-social-media","40":"tag-spain","41":"tag-technology","42":"tag-the-netherlands","43":"tag-trade","44":"tag-ukraine","45":"tag-united-states","46":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","47":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}