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Update:

Unbelievably, the British delegation at the EU summit has acceded to Sarkozy’s hack job on Europe’s competition commitments:

Reuters reports: As a result of this morning’s meeting, clarification is emerging on this issue. People are now much more reassured across the board,” Blair’s official spokesman told reporters. There were 13 other references to free market competition in existing EU treaties so the legal basis for the European Commission’s regulatory powers would not be changed, he said.

Sorry, this is the thin end of a very large wedge and a very worrying development indeed.

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Reuters is reporting that Tony Blair is currently meeting with President Sarkozy to press him on his extraordinary move to delete references to competition in the “Reform Treaty” currently under negotiation.

A spokesman for the British Prime Minister is quoted as saying: “The prime minister is talking to President Sarkozy at the moment about it … We have to have a situation where there is clarity over the EU’s attitude to competition.”

Reuters