BRUSSELS: EU leaders minus Britain will debate for the primary time Friday find out how to fill a Brexit-sized hollow within the bloc's budget and the way to select a successor to European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker.
Grand plans driven through French President Emmanuel Macron to reboot the European Union after Britain leaves in 2019 will collide with problems with chilly laborious money and sovereignty on the summit in Brussels.
The 27 leaders won't take any formal selections on Friday however will lay the bottom for what could be bitter negotiations ahead, particularly over a post-Brexit investment gap of as much as 15 billion euros a yr.
They are also set to lay down the law to the European Parliament, insisting that as elected nationwide leaders they, and now not MEPs, must have the final say on who is the following commission president in 2019.
EU President Donald Tusk said in his invitation letter to the leaders that he would search their "guidance" on the issues that can form the years yet to come for the continent.
Juncker, who is because of stand down next yr, said on the eve of the summit that Europe's restoration after years of disaster was "back on track", however that "we cannot slow down, Europe must press the accelerator."
"We must take it step by step starting tomorrow," he said.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will probably be excluded from the assembly in Brussels, the latest in a sequence of special EU summits aimed toward charting a roadmap following the shock of Britain's June 2016 vote to hand over the bloc.
One key factor is how the EU will make a choice a brand new head of the European Commission, the chief arm of the union, which has a monopoly on proposing new laws and has transform increasingly political beneath Juncker.
In 2014 Juncker was selected through the so-called "Spitzenkandidat" -- German for "lead candidate" -- gadget.
That involves the biggest party within the European Parliament nominating its candidate for the commission submit, and then the European Council of EU leaders makes a last selection taking the pick out of MEPs under consideration.
The European Parliament wants the same to occur after the following European elections in 2019, however with a guarantee that its candidate will probably be selected.
On Spitzenkandidat, Tusk will ask whether or not the EU should settle for that the parliament's candidate is "automatically" going to transform commission leader or whether or not the final say must be with leaders.
Officials said leaders had been most commonly opposed to what they see as an influence seize through MEPs on the expense of nationwide sovereignty.
"There cannot be, and will not be, a guarantee that one of the lead candidates will be president of the commission," a senior EU authentic said, including however that leaders wanted to keep away from any "deep conflict" with the parliament.
The other thorny factor is find out how to fill the outlet within the EU's multi-year budget after 2020 left through Brexit.
Tusk goes to ask leaders whether or not they're in a position to pay extra and to induce them to focus on defence, schooling and migration. Brussels has steered cuts to agricultural finances and payments to poorer areas.
He will even say it's "unrealistic" to be expecting any settlement on the budget prior to the 2019 European elections, mentioning that final time it took 29 months to reach settlement.
Tusk will even tell leaders that he expects to head ahead as planned at a summit in March and factor Brexit negotiating tips on the long term EU-Britain dating, whether or not or now not the British premier has introduced her own vision, officials said.
He will even push ahead with that although there is no deal on a post-Brexit transition period, recently mired in negotiations about how lengthy it will final, how intently Britain must stick to EU laws, and the rights of European electorate.
May is anticipated to make a speech next week on Britain's partnership with the EU after Brexit, her office said Thursday, after she chaired an eight-hour cabinet assembly at her nation retreat to thrash out a plan.
Grand plans driven through French President Emmanuel Macron to reboot the European Union after Britain leaves in 2019 will collide with problems with chilly laborious money and sovereignty on the summit in Brussels.
The 27 leaders won't take any formal selections on Friday however will lay the bottom for what could be bitter negotiations ahead, particularly over a post-Brexit investment gap of as much as 15 billion euros a yr.
They are also set to lay down the law to the European Parliament, insisting that as elected nationwide leaders they, and now not MEPs, must have the final say on who is the following commission president in 2019.
EU President Donald Tusk said in his invitation letter to the leaders that he would search their "guidance" on the issues that can form the years yet to come for the continent.
Juncker, who is because of stand down next yr, said on the eve of the summit that Europe's restoration after years of disaster was "back on track", however that "we cannot slow down, Europe must press the accelerator."
"We must take it step by step starting tomorrow," he said.
British Prime Minister Theresa May will probably be excluded from the assembly in Brussels, the latest in a sequence of special EU summits aimed toward charting a roadmap following the shock of Britain's June 2016 vote to hand over the bloc.
One key factor is how the EU will make a choice a brand new head of the European Commission, the chief arm of the union, which has a monopoly on proposing new laws and has transform increasingly political beneath Juncker.
In 2014 Juncker was selected through the so-called "Spitzenkandidat" -- German for "lead candidate" -- gadget.
That involves the biggest party within the European Parliament nominating its candidate for the commission submit, and then the European Council of EU leaders makes a last selection taking the pick out of MEPs under consideration.
The European Parliament wants the same to occur after the following European elections in 2019, however with a guarantee that its candidate will probably be selected.
On Spitzenkandidat, Tusk will ask whether or not the EU should settle for that the parliament's candidate is "automatically" going to transform commission leader or whether or not the final say must be with leaders.
Officials said leaders had been most commonly opposed to what they see as an influence seize through MEPs on the expense of nationwide sovereignty.
"There cannot be, and will not be, a guarantee that one of the lead candidates will be president of the commission," a senior EU authentic said, including however that leaders wanted to keep away from any "deep conflict" with the parliament.
The other thorny factor is find out how to fill the outlet within the EU's multi-year budget after 2020 left through Brexit.
Tusk goes to ask leaders whether or not they're in a position to pay extra and to induce them to focus on defence, schooling and migration. Brussels has steered cuts to agricultural finances and payments to poorer areas.
He will even say it's "unrealistic" to be expecting any settlement on the budget prior to the 2019 European elections, mentioning that final time it took 29 months to reach settlement.
Tusk will even tell leaders that he expects to head ahead as planned at a summit in March and factor Brexit negotiating tips on the long term EU-Britain dating, whether or not or now not the British premier has introduced her own vision, officials said.
He will even push ahead with that although there is no deal on a post-Brexit transition period, recently mired in negotiations about how lengthy it will final, how intently Britain must stick to EU laws, and the rights of European electorate.
May is anticipated to make a speech next week on Britain's partnership with the EU after Brexit, her office said Thursday, after she chaired an eight-hour cabinet assembly at her nation retreat to thrash out a plan.
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