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Friday, June 28, 2013

EU leaders win breakthrough on budget deal

EU leaders pose for photographers during a group photo at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 27, 2013. Front row left to right, Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, Romanian President Traian Basescu, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, French President Francois Hollande, European Parliament President Martin Schultz, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, Latvian Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Council General Secretary Uwe Corsepius. Back row left to right, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo, Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy , Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Czech Republic's Prime Minister Petr Necas, Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek, Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Tapani Katainen, Austria's Chancellor Werner Faymann, Bulgaria's Prime Minister Plamen Oresharkski, Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders reached an outline deal Friday on the 27-country bloc's 960 billion euro ($1.3 trillion) seven-year budget, overcoming a British-French dispute to sign off on the agreement.



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