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[Spiegel Online]
Expectations are high ahead of the EU summit in Brussels, which begins Thursday. But the meeting is likely to be stormy and concrete results are unlikely. With Chancellor Merkel standing firm in her opposition to euro bonds, a north-south divide is the only probable result.
It's one of those strange coincidences. When the German national football team takes on Italy in Warsaw on Thursday evening, in the semi-final of the European Football Championship, a second, no less interesting German-Italian duel will be taking place 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) away in Brussels -- where Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Chancellor Angela Merkel will confront each other at the European Union summit. On the football pitch, the Italians have always come away victorious. In politics, however, it is Merkel who has always won the day, most recently at the four-way summit in Rome last Friday. But this time, Monti is threatening to keep negotiating until he gets what he wants, saying he's ready to keep talking until Sunday night, past the summit's scheduled end on Friday.
Otherwise, he warned on Wednesday night, anti-EU political forces could be unleashed "which would be a disaster for the whole of the European Union." Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy supports Monti in his position.
Lire : spiegel.de
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