EU ministers have clashed on whether the bloc should have a common set of minimum rights for criminal suspects, with the issue likely to muddy the waters at next week's summit on a new EU treaty and power-sharing arrangements.
"If 27 member states have to agree by consensus, this sort of thing can happen," German justice minister Brigitte Zypries said on Wednesday (13 June) after holding a regular meeting with her EU counterparts that saw six EU states block her project.
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