EU Summit Opens in Brussels on Competitiveness, Energy, Ukraine

The agenda's breadth is itself the signal: competitiveness, energy prices and the next long-term budget are being negotiated as one package, which is where any real trade-off between climate ambition and industrial costs gets settled. For crypto and RWA markets, the relevant thread is whether the budget and competitiveness discussions touch digital-infrastructure funding at all — the item does not say. The open question is whether energy-price relief gains traction as a competitiveness measure, since that is the variable most likely to shape European data-centre and blockchain infrastructure economics.