EU leaders gather for WWI memorial ahead of Juncker battle

In Ypres, the 28 EU leaders joined in a minute of silence remembering the fallen of WW1 at the Menin Gate.

Ypres is close to Western Front battlefields where hundreds of thousands lost their lives, and the gate bears some 54,000 names of the missing.

In a moving ceremony, the leaders dedicated a memorial bench stamped with the word "peace" in the EU's 24 official languages.

European Council President Herman van Rompuy read the poem The Fallen which was first published in 1914.