EU leaders who will meet on Friday in Brussels are to discuss the implications of events in Egypt and Tunisia for Middle East security, EU officials said.
Thousands of supporters of Egypt's president and anti-government demonstrators in Cairo attack each other with stones, clubs; witnesses say Egypt army fired warning shots.
Prime Minister wants international community to make clear that new leadership must meet a series of conditions similar to those posed by Hamas in order to gain recognition of legitimacy.
Embattled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was digging in his heels Wednesday after defying a week of massive protests calling for his immediate ouster and saying instead he would not run for re-election in September.
The unrest sweeping the Middle East dominated the second day of talks between Israeli and German leaders on Tuesday, with President Shimon Peres warning of the possible rise of religious dictatorships.
A hundred Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders from the Middle East, Africa and Europe Tuesday paid tribute to Holocaust victims at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
