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Article posted: 11/22/2012 4:13 PM

EU leaders enter bitter fight over budget

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, speaks with the media as she arrives for an EU summit at the EU Council building in Brussels on Thursday. EU leaders begin what is expected to be a marathon summit on the budget for the years 2014-2020. The meeting could last through Saturday and break up with no result and lots of finger-pointing.

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The leaders of Britain and France staked out starkly different visions of Europe's future Thursday as talks began in Brussels on how much the European Union should be allowed to spend, setting the stage for a long, divisive and possibly inconclusive summit.