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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10039

12 December 2009
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (eu) european council
Herman Van Rompuy wants return to less formal European Summits which give EU political guidelines

Brussels, 11/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - At the dinner on Thursday evening, the new full-time President of the European Council, Belgian Herman Van Rompuy set out for the 27 heads of state and government the way he hopes to organise European Council discussions from 1 January 2010, the date on which he officially takes up his new post. He said that he would like to make European Summits less formal to allow leaders to engage in political and strategic exchanges of view that are freer and less...

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