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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7821

15 October 2000
SPECIAL EDITIONFOR THE INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF BIARRITZ OF 13 AND 14 OCTOBER 2000 / (eu) eu/summit/charter of fundamental rights
Unanimous agreement on contents but question of legal nature remains open

Biarritz, 15/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - At his final press conference, President Chirac said that the European Charter of Fundamental Rights had been raised in Council Friday morning. Chirac told the press that there had been "unanimous agreement" on the text, that "may be proclaimed in Nice, following agreement by all the institutions concerned". It is a "historic" text, in which all EU citizens and those wanting to join will see themselves, he stated: a "political and ambitious' text,...