Could a hard core run the enlarged EU?
The leaders of France, Germany and the UK meet in Berlin on 18 February 2004 to try to forge a joint agenda for the EU. The summit is partly aimed at a rapprochement between the 'Big Three' after Iraq. They are still patching up relations after last year's rift, in which British Prime Minister Tony Blair supported the US-led war whereas his German and French counterparts opposed it. But the trilateral summit is also part of an experiment in new forms of leadership for the enlarged EU.
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