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EU leaders may be gathering in this building on Friday (Photo: Council of European Union)

Van Rompuy: Emergency euro summit 'not excluded'

Leaders of the 17 euro-using countries are expected to meet in Brussels on Friday (15 July) to help calm markets after the results come out of EU 'stress tests' on banks.

EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday said he had not yet made up his mind, but added that "such a meeting could not be excluded."

A diplomat from one of the eurozone countries told this website "apparently he's planning something, but we don't know when."

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

EU leaders may be gathering in this building on Friday (Photo: Council of European Union)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's Foreign Affairs Editor. He has been writing about foreign and security affairs for EUobserver since 2005. He is Polish but grew up in the UK. He has also written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Times of London.

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