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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7845

20 November 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence
European Union defence and foreign ministers believe the EU should be able to carry out Petersberg tasks "by 2003" - the catalogue of forces points to a 100,000-strong "reservoir" - the EU summit in Nice is due to approve the overall shape of a system for assessing member states undertakings

Brussels, 20/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The meeting of General Affairs Ministers, extended to include EU Defence Ministers, was staged on Monday afternoon in the wake of a conference convened on committing military capabilities. During their encounter the officials adopted a declaration on the commitment of military capabilities (we are publishing the full version of the document), which stresses that the process, « carried out without any unnecessary duplication, does not imply the creation...

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