EU Shapes Up For Battle With Tories Over New Treaty

Foreign leaders believe a Tory win in the general election could prove to be the biggest obstacle to French and German plans to give Brussels sweeping new powers to police national economies.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, insisted changes to the Lisbon Treaty were needed to introduce the measures and in order to prevent another Greek crisis.

She insisted an incoming Conservative government would not be allowed to use new treaty negotiations to ask for powers to be returned to Britain. She challenged the Tory leader to defy the might of Berlin, and the EU.'

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