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He said that "all Europe must work together to defeat terrorism" and called for an emergency meeting of the continent's interior ministers Friday.

At the meeting of European Union trade ministers Friday in Luxembourg, France cleared the way for the European Commission to begin negotiations with Washington on a free-trade pact.

The Treasury secretary, who is to join G-20 finance ministers Friday and Saturday in Busan, South Korea, has lately been urging other countries to conduct bank stress tests.

"From the NATO side, our position is very clear: We are thinking about two separate systems, a NATO system and a Russian system, but with a common objective," Mrs. Clinton told the foreign ministers Friday.

That glossed over the grumbling about Mr. Geithner's comments from several European ministers Friday, including Maria Fekter of Austria, who publicly said she was unimpressed with Mr. Geithner's contribution.

May gathered her senior ministers Friday for a summit at her country retreat to present a plan for how the U.K. was going to leave the EU, which received the full backing of her cabinet.

Ministers' Monday consisted wholly of clergy who met where "they could talk golf and swear".

E.U. officials are expected to examine possible legal hurdles — particularly whether national budget laws would need to be altered — before a meeting of euro-zone finance ministers Monday.

The request was due to be made at a meeting of E.U. health ministers Thursday in Luxembourg.

The EU is poised to increase sanctions on Russia at a meeting of foreign ministers Tuesday in Brussels.

"Order and justice will be the final word in our country," Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said after a series of meetings with cabinet ministers Thursday.