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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7774

7 August 2000
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/united kingdom
Commission responds to accusations over education and external aid

Brussels, 07/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission rejects the accusations levied by the British Conservatives and a section of the British press according to which it is attempting to institute a "EU education dimension" and thus "to aggrandise itself even as it proves that it cannot deal professionally with its current responsibilities such as external aid", to take the exact terms used by the British Conservative spokesperson for foreign affairs, Francis Maude, widely quoted...