Macron shouldn’t look Starmer’s gift horse in the mouth

Press quote (Bloomberg)
Julian King
22 March 2025

Julian King, the EU commissioner for security from 2016-2019, argues in a paper for the Centre for European Reform that “there is a long tradition in the EU of pursuing package agreements, and saying ‘nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.’ This can speed up progress; more often it slows everything down to the pace of the most difficult issue.”