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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10251

6 November 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/italy
Rome slams Franco-German pre-cooked deal and suggests G6

Brussels, 05/11/2010 (Agence Europe) - Italy is highly critical about France and Germany's habit of cooking up deals between the two of them on all major European issues, deals that they then seek to have approved as such, or only very slightly amended, by their 25 partners of the European Council. Rome also hopes to be involved in informal debate for preparing major decisions and suggests to this end that a “G6” be set up, a “Vanguard Group” composed of the six largest EU countries...

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