LONDON • European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels later this week for a summit which will, by necessity, be largely about the vexed question of Britain's departure from the bloc.
Although none of the choices facing them is either attractive or straightforward and the problem of Britain seems likely to overshadow European affairs for many years to come, the EU as a whole has every reason to feel satisfied with the way it handled the British crisis.
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