THE TELEGRAPH: European leaders were this evening close to agreement on a revamped constitution after France won a symbolic watering down of the EU's 50 year commitment to a free market economy.
Tony Blair, attending his last EU summit as Prime Minister, was forced into an embarrassing u-turn after being outmanoeuvred by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the removal of a commitment to "free and undistorted" competition in a list of the EU's defining objectives. Blair outmanoeuvred by Sarkozy on treaty (more) By Bruno Waterfield and George Jones in Brussels
Mark Alexander
