BRUSSELS—Weary and bleary European Union leaders temporarily broke up their summit at dawn on the fourth day of acrimonious haggling over an unprecedented 1.85 trillion-euro ($2.1 trillion) EU budget and coronavirus recovery fund to tackle the crisis. They committed to picking up the fight again later on July 20.
In a two-day summit scheduled to have ended on July 18, deep ideological differences between 27 leaders forced the talks into July 19 and then through the night until the sun came up again over the EU capital. Grumpy, some leaders lashed out at each other when the common middle ground was still out of reach.
