Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came under heavy pressure at the EU summit Sunday as eurozone partners demanded a radical overhaul of his struggling country's strained public finances.
As European leaders opened crunch talks on the debt crisis, Berlusconi was also trying to defuse a row with France over Rome's over-representation, at the expense of France, on the board of the European Central Bank.
Berlusconi arrived at the summit venue well ahead of his 26 counterparts for a tete-a-tete with European Union president Herman Van Rompuy.
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