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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10314

11 February 2011
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/egypt
Mubarak resigns; EU calls for broad-based government

Brussels, 11/02/2011 (Agence Europe) - In the late afternoon of Friday 11 February, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in a statement read by his Vice-President Omar Suleimane, that he had resigned and was definitively leaving power after almost 30 years of uninterrupted rule. Power has been handed to the army during the transition.

In a first reaction, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton said she “respects” Mubarak's decision to step down. She also called for...

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