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British FM warns against more power for Brussels

By Juergen Baetz
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BERLIN (AP) — Britain has struck out against pressure for the 27-nation European Union to centralize more decision-making as the continent tackles its debt crisis, with its foreign secretary insisting that Europe needs flexibility and not uniformity.

Rebuffing German calls for deeper integration, William Hague warned a foreign policy conference in Berlin Tuesday against imposing a model designed to help the 17 countries that use the euro with their debt crisis on all 27 members of the EU.

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