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*** EU/Defence: Belgian Defence Minister André Flahaut told journalists, at the end of the informal meeting of the defence ministers of the Fifteen, at the Chateau d'Ecouen last week, that according to him, among Member States (except possibly for the Netherlands), there was no reluctance to the holding, in future, of formal meetings between EU defence ministers.
*** Euro: The German weekly Die Zeit states that, the concerted...