Tusk is aiming for a legally binding agreement between EU leaders, avoiding time-consuming treaty change, but he says the EU should be prepared to consider treaty change in the future.
On Wednesday the Holy See announced that it was preparing to sign its first treaty with Palestine, two years after officially recognising it as a state.
It may be, in the words of one British diplomat, a "crap acronym", but the UK is now a founding member of the "Chuks" – joining the Czechs, Hungarians and Swedes in refusing to join from the outset the 23 other EU states preparing to endorse a new treaty to save the euro.
- (EL) As a result of the anti-popular, anti-labour aims of the Maastricht Treaty, the EMU and euro were created, preparing the ground for the reactionary Lisbon Treaty and the escalating attack on workers' rights and freedoms.
Between October 1933 and June 1934 the United States, Italy, and 14 Latin-American nations signed an antiwar treaty prepared by Saavedra Lamas.
Mr Cameron was thrown a lifeline by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel who told reporters after the summit that Germany was prepared to consider treaty change to enshrine the new deal with Britain.
Representatives from governments around the world will meet in Geneva next month in a session convened by the United Nations Environmental Program to prepare a global treaty to reduce health hazards by banning certain products and processes that release mercury into the environment.
Buzek said everyone should be prepared for another treaty change, strictly on economic governance issues, but warned: "I am concerned that our citizens might not be ready for another round of referendums and ratifications.
EU president Italy, struggling to steer 25 bickering present and future member states towards agreement on a historic treaty, prepared the ground for possible failure saying it would not accept a deal at any cost.
But the delegates' failure to secure agreement on emissions reduction commitments in time to prepare a new treaty for the Paris meeting in two years has created doubts that the 21-year-old forum will be able to take the global warming fight forward after 2020.
