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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (C) chats with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou (R) and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt at the start of a European head of States Summit at EU council headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, 26 October 2011. European leaders were gathering in Brussels for a summit, the second in just four days, designed to end Greece's debt crisis and prevent it from spreading to the eurozone's third-largest economy - Italy. The make-or-break meeting, set to get underway at 6 pm (1600 GMT) with a gathering of the European Union's 27 leaders ahead of a session involving only the eurozone's 17 member states, was due to take place amid heightened political tensions in several countries. (KEYSTONE/EPA/OLIVIER HOSLET)