Live blog: EU leaders’ summit

EU leaders may schedule their summits months in advance, but they always seem to somehow fall right after a major news event.

This time, it’s an aborted mutiny in Russia that has Europe buzzing as everyone anxiously peers into a crystal ball and tries to divine Russia’s future.

Yet that hasn’t totally derailed the agenda for Thursday and Friday.

China will be woven throughout the talks, as leaders spar over the EU’s attempts to get more sensitive technologies made at home and not in China.

And there’s a fight brewing over migration, with leaders set to discuss a recent deal that would overhaul how the EU processes and relocates migrants (explainer here). As of now, there’s little agreement over how to actually implement — and pay for — the agreement.

Expect an update as well on how the EU thinks it’s doing on its self-appointed mandate to become a military manufacturing powerhouse (relative to now, at least).

As always, POLITICO will have all the news analysis increasingly punch-drunk ruminations you need from on-site. And it’ll all be housed here.