MEPs urged European leaders to act urgently to deal with the deepening economic crisis, ahead of an EU Summit on 19-20 March. They also stressed the need to avoid isolating individual countries and for there to be no economic demarcation lines in Europe. There were also discussions about the EU hopes of Croatia, Turkey and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. There was a minute’s silence for those killed in the school shooting in Winnenden, Germany.

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