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| EU summit: all-night negotiations but no deal yet for David Cameron – live | EU summit: all-night negotiations but no deal yet for David Cameron – live |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| 6.04am GMT | |
| 06:04 | |
| For an at-a-glance guide to what happened in Brussels overnight, take a look at our (well, my) EU briefing: | |
| Related: EU briefing: what you need to know about overnight Brussels talks | |
| Warning: includes gratuitous conspiracy theorising about the appearance and disappearance of Union flags in the meeting rooms. | |
| 5.50am GMT | |
| 05:50 | |
| Our latest report rounds up the key moves – and lack of – overnight: | |
| Negotiations that could decide Britain’s future in the European Union remain on a knife-edge after all-night meetings in Brussels ended without any form of a deal. | |
| David Cameron left talks with European Council president Donald Tusk and commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at 5.30am (CET), making no comment. Further discussions are reportedly scheduled for 9am. | |
| Cameron has been warned by EU leaders that he would not be given a second chance if he failed to strike an agreement at the gathering of 28 heads of government. | |
| Shortly before the talks broke up Tusk, a key broker in the negotiations, said: “For now I can only say that we have made some progress but a lot needs to be done.” | |
| Read the full article here: | |
| Related: No deal yet for Cameron after marathon talks at EU summit | |
| 5.37am GMT | |
| 05:37 | |
| Questioned in the early hours of Friday – before the latest round of bilateral talks with David Cameron and other leaders – Donald Tusk said some progress had been made on a UK/EU deal, “but a lot still remains to be done”. | |
| 5.08am GMT | 5.08am GMT |
| 05:08 | 05:08 |
| Opening summary | Opening summary |
| Claire Phipps | Claire Phipps |
| Talks in Brussels on the future of the UK within the EU have continued throughout the night, with British prime minister David Cameron leaving a bilateral meeting at 5.30am local time – giving no word on the progress of the discussions. | Talks in Brussels on the future of the UK within the EU have continued throughout the night, with British prime minister David Cameron leaving a bilateral meeting at 5.30am local time – giving no word on the progress of the discussions. |
| Here is what we do know, as day two emerges from a sleepless day one: | Here is what we do know, as day two emerges from a sleepless day one: |
| We have made some progress but a lot still remains to be done. | We have made some progress but a lot still remains to be done. |
| The important statement for me today is that we have not only reaffirmed the EU-Turkey action plan, but we have said it is our priority. | The important statement for me today is that we have not only reaffirmed the EU-Turkey action plan, but we have said it is our priority. |
| He has come along with his begging bowl, saying please sir, can we have more concessions? Most of what you are seeing here is theatre. It’s theatre from Mr Cameron and it’s theatre from the other leaders. | He has come along with his begging bowl, saying please sir, can we have more concessions? Most of what you are seeing here is theatre. It’s theatre from Mr Cameron and it’s theatre from the other leaders. |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 5.39am GMT |