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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7877

10 January 2001
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The depleted uranium affair raises the general question of destruction in the region of the Danube and increases the need for a European security and defence policy

A little decency, please. The affair of the depleted uranium must be dealt with with tact and a sense of responsibility. It is indecent that it should be considered in different quarters as an internal political argument, as opportunity to attack some political opponent or other, or as pretext to rail against the Atlantic Alliance that, for half a century, guaranteed peace on our continent when the Soviet threat was real. Young soldiers are dying. There is fear of the risk of contamination...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION