The EU quarter of Brussels was sealed off and metro stations near the summit venue shut from noon on Friday -- even though the meeting did not begin until Friday night.
Every quarter the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) scrutinise Greece before releasing the next chunk of money.
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Greece, it turns out, has only used a quarter of its EU funds for 2007-2013.
Among the several criteria is finding 1m signatories (0.2% of the EU population) from a quarter of member countries.
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Mrs May expects her new measures to cut non-EU student numbers by at least 70, 000-80, 000 a year, or more than a quarter of the non-EU total (EU citizens don't need visas to study in Britain), though both numbers and policy details remain a work in progress.
In 2006 EU countries accounted for almost a quarter of world defence spending.
Sure, farmers will receive EU subsidies - albeit at a quarter of the rate that western European farmers operating in the same market enjoy.
China is expected to issue its third-quarter gross domestic product data, while the EU leaders summit begins Thursday.
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Most believe the EU will continue its economic contraction at least into the fourth quarter of 2012.
Fresh EU economic data released overnight showed EU exports dropped by 0.9% in the fourth quarter, compared to the third quarter.
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The economies of both the eurozone and EU showed growth of 1.4% compared with the third quarter of 2010, according to Eurostat.
The EU imports about 600, 000 barrels of Iranian oil daily, more than a quarter of Tehran's daily exports, according to the International Energy Agency.
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In the second quarter of this year 90% of the migrants detected trying to enter the EU illegally were on the Greek land border, Frontex says.
The EU employment level was reported at the lowest number of workers in seven years during the fourth quarter of 2012.
EU's even after enlargement, and nearly half China's, rather than a quarter.
Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said the eurozone economy shrank by 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2012 from the previous three-month period.
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