{"id":523609,"date":"2025-10-24T02:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523609\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T02:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T02:02:10","slug":"29-things-we-learned-from-the-eu-leaders-summit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/523609\/","title":{"rendered":"29 things we learned from the EU leaders\u2019 summit \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

26.<\/strong> And the Commission wants to roll up its sleeves<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU executive \u201cis ready to help,\u201d von der Leyen said after the summit, announcing a European Affordable Housing Plan is in the pipeline and the first EU Housing Summit in 2026.<\/p>\n

27. Leaders enjoyed a feast or two<\/strong><\/p>\n

For lunch, langoustine with yuzu, celeriac and apple, fillet of veal with artichokes and crispy polenta, and a selection of fresh fruit. For dinner, cannelloni with herbs, courgette velout\u00e9, fillet of brill with chorizo and pepper, and fig meringue cake. Yum.<\/p>\n

28. Though a few couldn\u2019t make it<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n was the most notable absence, rocking up several hours late due to a national holiday in Budapest. Portugal and Slovenia\u2019s leaders were also absent at one point.<\/p>\n

29. And Costa kept his promise \u2026 just<\/strong><\/p>\n

The European Council president pledged to streamline summits under his watch, making them one-day affairs instead of two. And with just a couple hours to spare, he was successful.<\/p>\n

Okay, breathe. Did we miss anything? (Don\u2019t answer that.)<\/p>\n

Gerardo Fortuna, Max Griera Andrieu, Jordyn Dahl, Gabriel Gavin, Hanne Cokelaere, Clea Caulcutt, Hans von der Burchard, Kathryn Carlson, Tim Ross, Jacopo Barigazzi, Gregorio Sorgi, Eliza Gkritsi, Carlo Martuscelli, Nicholas Vinocur, Saga Ringmar, Sarah Wheaton, Louise Guillot, Zia Weise, Camille Gijs, Bartosz Brzezinski and Giedre Peseckyte contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"26. And the Commission wants to roll up its sleeves The EU executive \u201cis ready to help,\u201d von…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[17648,2594,18992,23404,1393,11783,7703,5108,331,15856,95693,1789,768,28,60391,2813,140668,346,1395,6641,6659,88781,3032,473,365,28648,32,5898,2595,5398,35,2000,85516,299,5187,1214,1945,1824,170040,2440,111080,806,6084,2199,6655,14790,151208,808,2452,22708,48802,6657,2597,23910,2598,809,5111,5338,15857,3046,5463,48,6566,31315,332,7339,2663,2558,13492,182,104,1218,1201,6862,1263,657,49,1220,1781,2601,771,6507,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-523609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-air-defense","10":"tag-airspace","11":"tag-ammunition","12":"tag-anti-coercion-instrument","13":"tag-antonio-costa","14":"tag-artillery","15":"tag-asylum","16":"tag-banks","17":"tag-bart-de-wever","18":"tag-bas-eickhout","19":"tag-belgium","20":"tag-borders","21":"tag-buildings","22":"tag-camille-gijs","23":"tag-carbon","24":"tag-carlo-martuscelli","25":"tag-cars","26":"tag-china","27":"tag-competitiveness","28":"tag-crisis","29":"tag-cutting-emissions","30":"tag-czech-republic","31":"tag-defense","32":"tag-denmark","33":"tag-dick-schoof","34":"tag-donald-trump","35":"tag-donald-tusk","36":"tag-drones","37":"tag-emissions","38":"tag-energy","39":"tag-eu","40":"tag-eu-summit","41":"tag-europe","42":"tag-european","43":"tag-exports","44":"tag-friedrich-merz","45":"tag-germany","46":"tag-giedre-peseckyte","47":"tag-giorgia-meloni","48":"tag-gregorio-sorgi","49":"tag-industry","50":"tag-infrastructure","51":"tag-italy","52":"tag-kyriakos-mitsotakis","53":"tag-labels","54":"tag-louise-guillot","55":"tag-maritime","56":"tag-media","57":"tag-mercosur","58":"tag-mette-frederiksen","59":"tag-migration","60":"tag-military","61":"tag-military-mobility","62":"tag-missiles","63":"tag-negotiations","64":"tag-parliament","65":"tag-pedro-sanchez","66":"tag-pipelines","67":"tag-portugal","68":"tag-renovation","69":"tag-rights","70":"tag-robert-fico","71":"tag-roundtable","72":"tag-russia","73":"tag-russia-sanctions","74":"tag-sanctions","75":"tag-slovakia","76":"tag-slovenia","77":"tag-social-media","78":"tag-spain","79":"tag-steel","80":"tag-trade","81":"tag-trade-agreements","82":"tag-transport","83":"tag-ukraine","84":"tag-united-states","85":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","86":"tag-viktor-orban","87":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","88":"tag-war","89":"tag-water","90":"tag-weapons"},"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\/523609","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=523609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}