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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7683

24 March 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/lisbon summit
Ms Fontaine tells heads of state and government that Parliament expects concrete decisions from summit, and mainly raises problem of "unregulated mergers" and "fourth world"

Lisbon, 23/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine stressed, in a speech before the European Council, Thursday morning as work opened, that Europeans expect a great deal from this summit. They mainly expect the meeting to "give shape to a social Europe", she said, while acknowledging the fact that social questions and employment problems remain essentially under national authority, and that "full employment cannot be brought about by decree but is,...

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