EU leaders choose France’s Lagarde for ECB after marathon summit

By Gabriela Baczynska, Richard Lough and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Tuesday to name France's Christine Lagarde as the new head of the European Central Bank and sealed a deal on filling the EU's other top four jobs after marathon talks that have exposed deep divisions in the bloc. Three days of summit negotiations that at times looked close to collapse ended with a deal that now must be approved by the European Parliament but was immediately rejected by the socialist bloc

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