London | While most attention at the G20 summit focused on the struggle to avert an escalation in the US-China trade war, on the sidelines there was another long and bitter wrangle coming to a head: the arm-wrestle over who will take over running the European Union in November.
The EU leaders who travelled to Osaka, such as France's Emmanuel Macron and Germany's Angela Merkel, took the intractable, byzantine spat with them – and they were rushing back to Brussels for a meeting of all 28 EU leaders on Sunday (Monday AEST) to try to ram some decisions through.
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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com
