EU leaders have said they will not allow the UK's departure to negatively affect the eurozone as they pledge to tighten links between member states.
According to the Financial Times, at a summit on the Mediterranean island of Ventotene, Italian premier Matteo Renzi, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande discussed plans to deepen intelligence co-operation and levy a pan-European investment plan. Six reasons to invest in Europe They also pledged to address European defence, the region's refugee crisis, and spur its economic growth. The trio said they would prolong a €315bn EU investment plan by two years to 2019, while an enlargement of the plan was also discussed. The summit was held to allow ...
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