SPECIAL EDITION FOR THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL 12 DECEMBER 2003 / (eu) eu/brussels summit/igc

25 Heads of State and Government fail "collectively" to give Europe a Constitution - Spectre of two-speed Europe re-emerges as Ireland inherits unfinished Intergovernmental Conference - Irish Presidency sees no chance for de-blockage before March 2004 - Headquarters of agencies agreed just before Christmas

Brussels, 14/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Brussels Summit ended on Saturday afternoon in failure, despite an unexpected agreement on the headquarters of agencies. Bizarrely, the Heads of State and Government reached agreement on the only dossier on which the Laeken Summit could not agree, but failed to conclude the Constitutional process launched by the Laeken declaration. The Italian Presidency threw in the towel half-way through the day, having decided that it was impossible to reach...