The European Council met in Brussels on Thursday. Unlike several emergency meetings of Europe's leaders this year, this European Council was planned. In this case, it was the agenda that was unexpected — not so much for what was discussed, but for what was not. This month's European Council had been expected to include discussions about the United Kingdom's EU referendum and the Five Presidents' Report, a document produced in June by Europe's institutions laying out a roadmap for future integration. These topics were delayed to December for various reasons. First, in recent months the inflow of immigrants along the Eastern Mediterranean route have reached such excessive proportions as to make the issue extremely urgent. Second, British Prime Minister David Cameron has been frustrating his European counterparts with a purposefully vague agenda, meaning there is still not much of consequence for the two sides to discuss.