EU leaders back limited treaty change

Article reports that European leaders agreed on 28 October 2010 to take up a narrow, limited change in the European Union’s treaties to shore up the stability of the euro, but stopped short of giving Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, the more sweeping changes to the bloc’s treaties she had called for.

ESO: Background information: Treaty change forced on to EU’s agenda http://www.europeansources.info/record/treaty-change-forced-on-to-eus-agenda/

BBC News, 29.10.10: EU leaders clinch pact to defend euro http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11652601

Spiegel Online International, 29.10.10: EU Agrees to Merkel's Controversial Euro Reforms http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,726103,00.html

---