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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7657

17 February 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/czech republic
President Havel hopes "European civic belonging" will develop with "growing sensitiveness" to xenophobic symptoms and intolerance - Institutional reform process could last decades, without delaying enlargement

Strasbourg, 16/02/2000 (Agence Europe) - "For many citizens, and not only in your country, you embody the values of Europe": this was stated by Nicole Fontaine, European Parliament President, on Wednesday when she welcomed Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, who took the floor at the EP plenary session for the second time (he had given a speech in 1994, just after enforcement of the Maastricht Treaty). Mr Havel evoked these values straightaway while questioning his own European...

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