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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10078
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi

Backdrop to business of Swift and the European Parliament's role

Guy Verhofstadt qualifies EP's vote as historic. Guy Verhofstadt, the chair of the Liberal Group at the European Parliament, made no bones about it - describing the rejection at the European Parliament of the draft Swift agreement on the transfer of Europeans' bank details to the United States as a “historic day in Strasbourg… but not yet in Brussels”. Why? In his opinion, the new balance between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament has been struck. It is no longer...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT