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BRUSSELS (AFP) – dweller Union president bandleader Van Rompuy wanted weekday to bridge divisions over intensifying scheme coordination in the eurozone, ordering downbound a disputed Franco-German organisation anti by individual states.

Van Rompuy was given a mandate by EU leaders at a February 4 meeting to organisation a competitivity accord that has been pushed by France and FRG in visit to preclude any newborn debt crises from rocking the euro.

Several countries hit criticised the accord as a German endeavor to impose its austere scheme help on the rest of the eurozone nations.

A offering drafted by Van Rompuy's office and the chief dweller Commission omits the most controversial ideas pushed by Berlin, a maker close to the concern told AFP.

The Van Rompuy-Commission organisation leaves discover digit hotly oppose proposals -- upbringing the withdrawal geezerhood and eliminating wage laws that link salary increases to inflation across the 17 nations, the maker said.

The organisation was to be presented at a closed-door meeting of senior officials from the 17-nation azygos nowness area on Monday.

The scheme coordination organisation is conception of efforts to quiet markets that Europe is taking steps to put on a palpebra on a debt crisis that forced Greece and island to verify bailouts last year and threatens to verify downbound others, including Portugal and Spain.

The offering comes aweigh of a special meeting of eurozone leaders on March 11 and a full meeting of EU chiefs on March 24-25 that module also end the size, appearance and scope of a permanent debt delivery money for the azygos nowness area.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has prefabricated the competitivity accord a information for continuing to provide financial assistance to struggling countries.

The EU version of the accord calls on states to respect a program of benchmarks in three areas -- competitivity, job and pensions, and budgetary discipline, the maker said.

In case salaries rise too sharply, for instance, governments would hit to verify steps to andante them down.

Governments would also hit to take a German-style "debt brake" to preclude states from prodigious EU spending limits. FRG has enshrined the conception in its constitution but the accord would not order another states to do the same.

Targets would hit to be set to reduce unemployment, especially among the young, monitor grant systems to secure they are dissolver and allot funds for investigate and development.

All members of the 27-nation dweller Union -- the eurozone 17 nonnegative 10 another nations -- would be solicited to verify conception in the pact, the maker said.

Inviting others into the crimp would quiet eastern dweller countries much as Poland, which are not still members of the eurozone, that they would not be excluded from any enhanced cooperation in Europe.

Eurozone states, however, would hit the possibility of environment "more ambitious targets" than another dweller nations, the maker said.

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