All posts tagged: Charles Michel

Partying or fighting? The different approaches to being European Council president. – POLITICO

Partying or fighting? The different approaches to being European Council president. – POLITICO

“We played a game where you had to stay awake for 24 hours and one day the lads put a shot of tequila on every single bin on the beach for 500 metres — so 10 bins, 10 shots of tequila. You had to sprint to the first bin, gulp down the shot, sprint back. Then sprint to the second bin, down the shot, sprint back, and so on. Run, drink, run, repeat. Once, I tried to hurdle a sun-lounger, hit the top of it and went sprawling face down in the sand.” That quote is either an extract from the Council document register or former Premier League footballer Keiron Dyer’s account of his time in the resort town. Hopefully the leaders enjoy their time in Cyprus, but what a shame that Orbán — who is still Hungary’s prime minister — didn’t show up to ruin the whole thing (again!). He would have had the perfect opportunity to play spoiler; sitting at the dining table, heckling, getting wasted on zivania and throwing chicken bones at French …