EU leaders agree on deal to finance adding new countries

Saturday, October 26, 2002

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European Union leaders struck a complex deal Friday to finance the EU's historic expansion eastward, removing a key obstacle to admitting 10 new countries, including eight from the former Soviet bloc.

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