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Provisions to allow a core group of countries to forge a closer defence union, from which they might exclude others, are also meeting opposition from Finland, the central Europeans and the British.

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The parameters for such interventions are evidently the subject of considerable controversy, particularly given the need to comply with the EU Treaty and the sensitivities towards any formal program of purchases expressed by central banks from the surplus countries (Germany and possibly Benelux, Finland and Austria), Barclays said.

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