Europe Secures Historic Agreement For Deeper Integration

Friday, December 9, 2011


BRUSSELS (Luke Baker and Mark John) - Europe secured an historic agreement to draft a new treaty for deeper economic integration in the euro zone on Friday, but Britain, the region's third largest economy, refused to join the other 26 countries in a fiscal union and was left isolated.
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