Ironing out the details or "Italy gets its parity back"
EU leaders agree new treaty deal"European Union leaders have reached a deal on a landmark treaty to reform the 27-member bloc, officials say...
"The treaty is designed to replace the European Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005 and will be formally signed on 13 December.
"It includes the creation of a new longer-term president of the European Council and an EU foreign policy chief.
"If what will become known as the Treaty of Lisbon is ratified by all member states, it will come into force in 2009...
"In the last-minute negotiations, Italy gained an extra seat in the future European Parliament, returning it to parity with the UK... [See "Nationalsim meets supranational organization"]
"Poland secured a guarantee that small groups of countries would be able to delay EU decisions they do not like...
"Earlier, Austria reached a deal over its bid to maintain quotas for foreign students...
"Bulgaria also won the right to call the EU single currency the "evro", rather than euro, in its Cyrillic alphabet.
"The new Reform Treaty is designed to speed up decision making in the expanded European Union..."
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