Also, in Thursday’s edition: Grims Reaper, Alemanno vs Rahman, Serbia

Good morning. I’m back from walking St Cuthbert’s Way in Scotland and pretending to be a seventh-century hermit.

You’re reading Rapporteur on Thursday 9 July. This is Eddy Wax in Brussels, joined by Nicoletta Ionta.

Need-to-knows:

On the roundabout: EU commentariat feud and von der Leyen’s new adviser