Also, in Tuesday’s edition: Order of Merit, Turnberry, jet fuel

You’re reading Rapporteur on Tuesday 19 May. Eddy Wax here in Strasbourg (say hi), with Nicoletta Ionta in Brussels.

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From the capital

In what must be the peak of her lacklustre post-political career so far, Angela Merkel will today become a ‘distinguished member’ of the European Order of Merit, a new prize devised by MEPs.