EU leaders struggle to deal with crisis

Anthony Deutsch, The Hague

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder rushed to Luxembourg to discuss the EU's future with the country's prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker, who will chair the summit. Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said he also will meet Mr Juncker next week.

But as leaders of founding EU states struggled to limit the fallout from this week's rejections of the charter by Dutch and French voters, MPs in tiny Latvia one of the EU's newest members ratified the draft.