European Union leaders agreed today to restart stalled negotiations on the bloc's first constitution and complete them by a mid-June summit, an EU diplomat said.
"There was a unanimous agreement to finish the negotiations at the latest by the June (17-18) summit," the diplomat said.
Talks on a charter to allow the bloc to function smoothly once it takes in 10 new members in May collapsed last December when a row over voting power in EU decision-making, pitting France and Germany against Poland and Spain, proved intractable.
