The Hague – Leaders of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg are due to meet with counterparts and senior officials from Baltic and Nordic nations for talks ahead of a European Union summit and two days after formal negotiations on Britain’s divorce from the EU opened in Brussels. AP/UNB
Wednesday evening’s meeting in The Hague follows similar discussions in Warsaw between leaders of the so-called Benelux countries and four central European nations as countries across the continent seek to stake out common ground in the post-Brexit European Union.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is hosting a dinner for the prime ministers of Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden as well as officials from Finland and Denmark for a working dinner at the Netherlands’ parliamentary complex.
