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The European Union faces no shortage of challenges. Having 27 members makes unanimous decisions almost impossible, the Balkans are a perennial headache, China threatens to hollow out its economy and a resurgent Russia dominates the eastern skyline.

At the end of the union’s Dec. 13-14 summit, the group announced its decision to form a “reflection group” to ponder such problems and “to identify the key issues and developments which the union is likely to face and to analyze how these might be addressed” up to the years 2020-2030.

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