EU lowering expectations on Hamas-Fatah summit

          European Union officials have expressed doubt that talks between Palestinian Authority and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal will result in any concrete progress towards forming a unity government. Abbas and Mashaal are to meet in Cairo Thursday. John Gatt-Rutter, the European Union's acting representative to the Palestinian territories played down expectations, saying "there is a very low probability that it will lead to any agreement on a new government." (22,00)