Brief from Brussels: Migration, pigs and Puigdemont

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In this edition of the Brief from Brussels: the idea of external processing centres for migrants is criticised, as the EU opens dialogue with Egypt to help cure the bloc’s political headache; MEP expenses to stay secret after top court throws out case, in blow to transparency campaigners; Belgium moves to slaughter pigs amid a swine fever outbreak in wild boar; and former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont presents book on regional crisis, but not in Spanish.