Foreign ministers have agreed a 2009 deadline for consensus on a new EU treaty, while the European Commission suffered a blow with two of its key proposals failing to win support.
"The sky is clearing up …the thunderstorm clouds of the last year are slowly disappearing," the Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik told a news conference after two days of talks in Klosterneuburg abbey near Vienna over the weekend (27-28 May).
The talks produced fresh consensus on the need for EU ...
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