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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7869

22 December 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/denmark
Petersen leaves, so as "not to manage Danish exemptions"

Copenhagen, 21/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - Niels Helveg Petersen, Danish Foreign Minister for eight years, has announced that he was resigning because he was "not the right person to manage Danish exemptions, notably the one on European defence policy, that goes against Denmark's future interests". These exemptions (secured in December 1992, at the Edinburg Summit, on the single currency, defence, legal cooperation and European citizenship) "are a reality, and I respect them, but I cannot...

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