BERLIN – As European Union leaders try to come to an agreement over a package of measures to stop the spiraling debt crisis — agreed to in advance by the German parliament Wednesday — they are also pushing for steps to bring the continent closer together that some say are actually increasing the divisions in the bloc.
"The European Union has 27 members, not 17 members, and the (other 10) can't be (left) out (of the process)," said Piotr Maciej Kaczynski, researcher at the Center for European Policy Studies in Brussels.
