INTERNATIONAL leaders pledged millions of euro at a Kiev conference to complete a permanent shelter to secure the ruins of Ukraine’s exploded Chernobyl power station.

Hungary’s prime minister warned of a new economic “Iron Curtain” being drawn unless leaders at today’s European Union summit acted to protect the bloc’s weakest members from drowning in the global economic crisis.

IN a dramatic policy U-turn, British Prime Minister Tony Blair will today announce a referendum on the new EU constitution.