Egypt and euro to dominate tomorrows EU energy summit - by Ben Nimo

The surge of anti-government demonstrations across the Arab world looks set to dominate Friday's European Union summit, diplomats say, with tensions over the euro also likely to surface.

The summit had originally been intended to debate energy issues and the EU's spasmodic attempts to improve its competitiveness. But the eruption of violence in Egypt, and a Franco-German push for even stricter rules for eurozone states, threaten to eclipse that agenda.

'We should be able to quickly endorse the draft conclusions' on energy, while a proposed statement on innovation appears 'uncontroversial', summit chairman Herman Van Rompuy wrote in his invitation to national leaders, giving a clear sign of the relative weight now attached to those two issues. 

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