EU Leaders Give Themselves Six Months to Map Out Bloc's Future

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"EU Leaders Give Themselves Six Months to Map Out Bloc's Future

By Kevin Costelloe and Claudia Rach

June 25 (Bloomberg) -- The 27 countries of the European Union gave themselves six months to decide between consensus and the squabbling that almost sank a summit in Brussels.

EU leaders agreed at the Brussels meeting to negotiate by the end of this year a new governing treaty to guide the 50-year- old bloc and any future members. The summit, though, ran into an unscheduled third day and came near to collapse until Poland yielded to pressure to scale back its call for a greater say in EU decisions."