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BRUSSELS European Union heads of state and government spent the final day of their spring summit focused on the situation in Libya and on ways to boost the bloc's economy:

ECONOMY: Leaders backed a plan by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to spur investment. They also affirmed a target of the end of the year to conclude free-trade negotiations with the United States.

LIBYA: The leaders, fearful the unrest in Libya could splash over into Europe, tasked the EU's top diplomat with helping mediate talks between Libya's warring factions.

Here's what happened on Thursday:

UKRAINE: Leaders agreed not to lift EU sanctions on Russia until all the points of a peace accord for eastern Ukraine have been fulfilled. EU leaders also asked the bloc's foreign policy chief to come up with better ways to counter what they call Russian disinformation about the Ukraine conflict.

ENERGY UNION: Europe wants to create an energy union to decrease its dependency on oil and gas from Russia. The leaders pledged to end the separation between their 28 national energy markets, which they said would save European consumers about 40 billion euros ($43 billion) a year.

GREECE: EU leaders said the Greek prime minister recommitted to providing a list of concrete reform proposals in the coming days, as demanded by its creditors.

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By LORNE COOK Associated Press

BRUSSELS (AP) - European Union leaders, concerned about migrants using Libya as a jumping-off point to reach the continent, pledged Friday to help the conflict-torn country regain stability but ruled out deploying any security operation.

The leaders backed the U.N.-brokered peace process that is trying to bring Libya's opposing factions together in a new government and called for the warring militias to lay down their arms.

"There must be an immediate and unconditional cease-fire, and rapid agreement on a government of national unity," European Council President Donald Tusk said after hosting an EU summit in Brussels.

The EU's top diplomat, Federica Mogherini, said Europe is "planning all possible ways of supporting, even on the plan of security, a future national unity government." She has said Europe could mount a military and border operation, and help build Libya's police and justice systems.

But many of the EU's 28 member countries are reluctant to send troops or resources while Libya remains unsettled, with rival governments in place.

"There is no question of a military intervention," French President Francois Hollande told reporters. "Politics must play its role, that's what been missing in recent years."

Libya is the main departure point from Africa for migrants fleeing poverty and war in search of better lives in Europe, and officials now fear that extremists could also make the crossing.

EU statistics released Friday showed the number of overall asylum applications rose 44 percent from 2013 to 2014, to 626,000. One in five was fleeing the conflict in Syria.

"Europe must remain alert because it could be hurt by any deterioration in Libya, whether it be migration, extremism, terrorism or all kinds of trafficking," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said.

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