On the eve of a crucial meeting of EU leaders, commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has said that the 25-nation bloc is at a "crossroads in the construction of Europe" and urged governments to make a success of the event.
The commission president said the union had been "plunged into doubt" by the recent rejections of the constitution in both France and the Netherlands.
"We need to dissipate this doubt", he said.
Referring to the attempt by leaders to agree on how much s...
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