At the eleventh hour, leaders of the EU member states and their ten Mediterranean partners in the Euromed group on Monday (28 November) agreed on a code of conduct to counter terrorism, leaving out controversial key definitions for all parties.
Against the clock and with a prospect of walking away empty-handed from the two-day Barcelona summit, the diplomats indulged in feverish negotiations which lead to a compromise deal that the Arab states, the EU and Israel could back.
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