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Tue 02 Feb 2010White House signals Obama will not be at EU-US summit
PLANS FOR the annual EU-US summit are in disarray after the White House signalled that US president Barack Obama would not be attending the event.
While the European Commission said the matter was one for Spain’s rotating presidency of the EU, the chief spokeswoman for the EU executive implied that this year’s event would be scrapped or downgraded if Mr Obama did not attend.
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