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Brussels Impatient European leaders pressed a humiliated Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday to speed up Britain's divorce from the EU, warning that the UK cannot expect special treatment outside the bloc. Cameron, at probably his last EU summit in Brussels before stepping down, is refusing to bow to pressure quickly to initiate proceedings to exit the EU. He is leaving it to up to his successor -- to be named on Sept 9 -- to trigger Article 50, the EU treaty clause that starts a two-year countdown until Britain's departure. page 14
