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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7910
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/general affairs council

The 'Everything but Arms" initiative could be approved on Monday

Brussels, 23/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - Monday, the General Affairs Council could, depending on ultimate compromises, approve the so-called "Everything but Arms" initiative aimed at the total opening of the Union's markets to the products of the 48 poorest countries in the world. This is, in any case, the ambition shared by the Swedish Presidency and the European Commission, which will play on the "reasonable" margin of manoeuvre left open by Pascal Lamy to remove the last reservations that...

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