EU to hold post-Brexit summit in Malta in early 2017

The meeting of 27 leaders will follow a similar gathering in the Slovakian capital Bratislava this Friday, and comes ahead of a meeting in Rome in March that ties in with the 60th anniversary of the EU's foundation. Maltese premier Joseph Muscat tweeted that he had agreed with EU President Donald Tusk that "EU leaders will meet in Malta beginning 2017 to increase momentum for new idea of Europe".