Summit Update

The decision to remove 'free' from market in the treaty preamble has apparently been agreed, but will cause trouble in the UK. Nigel Farage of UKIP on Sky News from Brussels declared it as the end of the Common Market 'the only bit of the EU worth having' and even William Hague of the Tories has been quick to react saying it will rip the heart from the EU. Perhaps even MORE significantly Euronews is now reporting that the next phase will either be disagreement, a legal drafting process finished by the end of this year with ratification befor 2009 OR an Inter-Governmental Conference normally known as an IGC. As this blog has been warning an IGC looks like the present non-starter.