BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders offered political concessions to Britain after outvoting Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday over the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president, EU and British officials said.
The leaders added a paragraph to their final summit statement saying Britain's concerns about the future direction of the EU "will need to be addressed", and that the concept of "ever closer union" in EU treaties allowed for different paths of integration for different countries.
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