Like children keen to get out of school for the holidays, Europe's heads of government last night wrapped up their last European Council summit of the year a day early. That was perhaps unsurprising: compared to past summits, which have seen slugfests over everything from bail-out funds to climate policy, yesterday's was a relatively tame affair.
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European Council President Donald Tusk gives a joint press with EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (out of frame) following the European Union summit at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Dec. 18, 2014.
