Am in Brussels at the end of the European Council (Summit) meeting. Do various radio and television interviews.

However, I also pop in, out of interest, to the briefing given by the Prime Minister's spokesman to the British press. This is a curious affair. In the room are British journalists present at the Summit meeting and down the line are the lobby correspondents in London. The Prime Minister's spokesman takes questions alternately from those in the room in Brussels and those down the line in London. Every question put by those in Brussels relates to the subject of the briefing, namely what is happening at the summit meeting on issues such as Turkey's accession to the EU, the future of the Constitutional Treaty, European energy policy and so on. All the questions coming down the line from London are to do with domestic politics and bear no relation whatsoever with the subject of the briefing. And so on, back and forth like ping pong.

I can also see clearly which stories will be in tomorrow's newspapers - and it wont be the European ones. So much for helping public understanding of what actually happens in Brussels.