UK halts talk of a banking union with EU

DAVID Cameron claimed he had safeguarded Britain's position in Europe as EU leaders extended a lifeline to Spain's teetering banks.

At the end of two days of fraught negotiations in Brussels, the Prime Minister said he had ensured that the UK would not be drawn into a planned "banking union" while securing explicit safeguards for the single market.

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