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<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/10/today-in-pol-11.html">Today in Politics: The man who saved the world</a>

Behind the leaders' smiles at the European Union summit in Brussels, there has been a barely-concealed squabble between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy over who was the main architect of the EU's rescue plan for banks, key elements of which have been taken up by the United States.

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