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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10007

28 October 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/regional policy
Mercedes Bresso (CoR) and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (EP) fiercely oppose loss of EU focus in Cohesion Policy

Brussels, 27/10/2009 (Agence Europe) - In a joint letter written in French to the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, by Mercedes Bresso, chair of the PES group at the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, chair of the European Socialist Party, they criticise attempts by the European Commission, in a first draft of a policy document doing the rounds at the Commission, to reduce cohesion policy to a redistributive safety net, involving regions...

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