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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10039

12 December 2009
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Scratching beneath the surface of useful but uneventful summit

A modest, business-like European summit without rabble-rousers, angry farmers or crowds of demonstrators? No squabbling among member states about who's going to get the top jobs? What on earth is going on? There's no reason for us to cover it in the news - that has been the reaction of most of the media. This particular summit, however, was a first in at least one respect - for the very last time, this European summit was organised by the prime minister of one of the member states. All...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
EUROPEAN COUNCIL
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
SUPPLEMENT