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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7702

20 April 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/austria
Jörg Haider threatens Austrian secession from the EU, Wolfgang Schüssel says bilateral sanctions are illegal, future French Presidency provides assurances

Vienna / Paris, 19/04/2000 (Agence Europe) - The case of EU bilateral sanctions against Austria has given rise to new reactions recently, in Austria and elsewhere.

In an interview published on Thursday in the weekly News, Jörg Haider states that the EU has "created a situation where, for the first time, a Member State has to consider whether it should secede". In his view, it is going to be "interesting to see" whether, by stopping payment of its contributions to the Union budget, Austria...

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