BARCELONA (Reuters) - The European Union clinched a last-minute deal with Israel and its Arab neighbours on Monday on a joint code of conduct to fight terrorism, at the end of a lacklustre summit from which most Arab leaders stayed away.
After hours of wrangling, a final compromise omitted both the EU's insistence that self-determination could not be used to justify terrorism and the Arabs' demand to distinguish between terrorism and the right to resist foreign occupation.
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