Cod, shrimp and iPad jokes: World leaders mixed it up backstage at the Brexit summit
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It's the only way the EU can ever come to the necessary consensus, and often seems baffling to outsiders — but the EU has elevated it into an art.German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, European Council President Donald Tusk and Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel attend an extraordinary European Union leaders summit to discuss Brexit, in Brussels, Belgium April 10, 2019.
May then took the floor, pleading with her peers to extend Brexit again, speaking for just over an hour before she was effectively ejected so the remaining EU members could debate whether the prime minister made a convincing case.It was a special kind of European dinner party: EU leaders each had their turn to talk in between bites and sips.
As usual at EU meetings, the menu carried political undertones. Tension erupted between French and British fishermen earlier this year over scallop-fishing rights, while cod has been a source of dispute for decades.May meanwhile had dinner off-campus — asparagus for starter, roast lamb and fruit to cleanse the palate.
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