EU leaders to lock horns over treaty and expansion

EU leaders will today gather in Brussels to conduct some high-level head-scratching over the bloc's constitution after an official year of reflection produced much thought but few answers.

It is unlikely the uneasy status quo - in existence since French and Dutch voters rejected the text last summer - will be changed just one short year later.

Instead EU leaders will try to agree a text that offends none of the prominent country's positions on the document.

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