Euro area leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday evening (7 May) are frantically searching for language in a final communique to allay market fears over the bloc's debt crisis, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy leading calls for economic reforms to be speeded up.
As a result, the conclusions of an economic task force under the control of European Council president Herman Van Rompuy could be brought forward from the end of the year, say EU sources.
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