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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7872

30 December 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence
Flahaut proposes study by the Fifteen of the "Balkans syndrome"

Brussels, 29/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - André Flahaut, Belgium's Defence Minister, wrote on 29 November to his Swedish counterpart, Björn von Sydow, to propose analysis "for the first time at European level" of the "Balkans syndrome", the health problems of military personnel from European countries who took part in peace-keeping missions in ex-Yugoslavia. (Cases of cancer have been reported in Belgium, leukemia in the Netherlands and members of the Italian military have died). According to...

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