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EUROPEAN leaders have finally admitted that the EU needs reassessing after the rise in far-right parties at last week’s elections.

David Cameron said it was time to acknowledge Brussels had become too big[GETTY]

The gathering of 28 leaders in Brussels discussed the political earthquake which saw Ukip top the polls in Britain, the far-right Front National come first in France and the extreme-left Syriza movement take top spot in Greece. 
European Council President Herman Van Rompuy accepted that voters had sent a “strong message”.
He added the results had shown a “mix of continuity and change” but the Eurosceptic message from voters was “at the heart” of discussions between leaders.
His words came after British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was time to acknowledge Brussels had become too big.
He said: "Europe cannot shrug off theses results. We need an approach that recognises that Europe should concentrate on what matters, on growth and jobs and not try and do so much.
"We need an approach that recognises that Brussels has got too big, too bossy, too interfering. We need more for nation states. It should be nation states wherever possible and Europe only where necessary.
"Of course we need people running these organisations that really understand that and can build a Europe that is about openness, competitiveness and flexibility, not about the past."
At last week's European Elections, Ukip caused a "political earthquake" when they received 27.5 per cent of the vote and 24 MEPs in the UK.
It is not only Cameron who signalled a shift as other leaders now appear to be listening.
French President Francois Hollande appeared to echo the sentiment, saying: “I am European and I want Europe to change.”

In a strong rebuke of the office of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Hollande said that "it is the practice that needs to change. It is simplification that is called for."
"I want that. Everybody wants that," Hollande said in language almost remininscent to that of Cameron.
While Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: "The answer to the vote is less rules and less meddling from Europe.”
The leaders met in Brussels yesterday to decide how to respond to the massive support for Eurosceptic parties.
Among the discussion was who to succeed Barroso later this year.
Front-runner is Jean-Claude Juncker, an EU veteran with federalist ambitions, who – according to Ukip leader Nigel Farage – is “fanatical about building the United States of Europe.”
Cameron claimed a mini victory last night as he made clear he would not support him, saying a “fresh approach” was needed.
Although Mr Cameron cannot formally veto Mr Juncker it is unlikely that the European Council, made up of the EU's 28 national heads of government, would force through a new president without unanimous backing.
Mr Van Rompuy said the meeting in Brussels had been a "useful first discussion" and that EU leaders had agreed on putting the economy at the heart of the group's agenda.
"As the union emerges from the financial crisis it needs a positive agenda of growth," he said, repeating a common refrain of what is needed to reverse growing anti-EU sentiment.
Other reforms to the EU could include less regulation and less focus on economic austerity policies, which have alienated many of the poorer nations who have had to be financially bailed out by the bloc.
Frank Field, who chairs the cross-party group on balanced migration, called for an end to the free movement of people and insisted there needed to be limits.
He said it was not necessarily a case of leaving the EU but negotiating on key issues for reform ahead of a referendum.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "What we ought to be drawing up in this country is what I would call the red and blue lines - the minimum negotiations that we want.
"Certainly the free movement of labour is part of that but also how law is interpreted and developed by judges way beyond what was originally envisaged.
"There are a whole range of issues I think we need to get clear for serious negotiation... Then those negotiations do need to be put to people in a referendum.
"If those negotiations go well, I think people will vote to stay. If they look as though the skirmishes were not serious at all in these renegotiations, then there is a possibility we might actually look for a much looser association.
"I'm not arguing there should be no movement... but when we signed up to this it was a treaty between countries with a very similar standard of living. Therefore there wasn't much movement because there wasn't much point.
"If you then extend that to countries which may have only a sixth of the value of the standard of living we have in this country, you risk huge movements of labour.
"If you look at what has happened since 1997, we have had something like four million people come, a million in London. That is the equivalent of the whole of Birmingham without any attempts to build the roads, the school