Europe is our common future, 27 leaders to say after draft on Brexit

The Tusk draft is very soft on the idea of a multi-speed EU

“Europe is our common future,” the European Union’s 27 leaders plan to declare in Rome next week, in defiance of its worst blowback ever - Brexit.

A one-and-a-half page draft, seen by Reuters in advance of the meeting to mark 60 years of the bloc and entitled “The Rome Declaration”, is an effort by the 27 to chart a course for their future after Britain leaves in 2019.

“We are determined to make the EU stronger and more resilient, through even greater unity and solidarity amongst us.

Unity is both a necessity and our free choice,” it reads.

“Taken individually, we would be sidelined