Erik Kirschbaum is an American journalist who writes for the Los Angeles Times, amongst other media outlets. He says: „The summit exposed once again how much disunity there is in the European Union.”

 

 

Paweł Tokarski is a Polish economist and Senior Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. He says: "We must reform the member states now or we’ll face the same problems again with less time and fewer instruments.”

 

 

Cerstin Gammelin is deputy editor in chief in the parliamentary bureau of the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. She says: "The deal is far from perfect but a signal that multilateralism is still alive.“