"We will address several issues that must be tackled together to advance our common ambitions: to build a more competitive, safer and more autonomous Europe for our citizens, and to ensure that the European Union can be an effective, predictable and reliable global actor," Antonio Costa, President of the European Council, said in a statement.
"Serebrennikov pulls the action of Mussorgsky's brooding opera, which follows the reign and death of an ill-fated 17-century Russian tsar, firmly into the present day."