Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, who chaired the summit, accepted Mr Blair's insistence that member countries keep their vetoes on such issues as tax, social security and judicial co-operation, instead of introducing majority voting as the draft constitution had proposed.

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Rep. Greg Walden, who runs the House GOP 2014 campaign operation to retain and expand their majority, told reporters he tapped Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler, the youngest female House member and a Hispanic, to help with outreach.

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Ch Supt Matthew Greening told BBC News he thought the operation went well, and that the majority of fans had behaved themselves.

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