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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7931

25 March 2001
SPECIAL EDITION EUROPEAN
COUNCIL STOCKHOLM,
23 AND 24 MARCH 2001 /
(eu) eu/european council of stockholm
Persson welcomes "breakthrough" at Summit on financial markets, Single Sky and liberalisation of postal sector - Prodi pleased with results on Galileo, but not so for European patent - Liberalisation of energy markets: no date as yet, but Commission will soon make a proposal

Stockholm, 25/03/2001 (Agence Europe) - During this summit, "we have built the first storey of the ten-storey house" that we pledged to build in Lisbon, by 2010, said Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson during the press conference that closed the European Council of Stockholm, on 24 March. Mr Persson pointed out that the Heads of State and Government have now added four new areas to the objectives set out in the Lisbon strategy: the EU's ageing population, the role of biotechnology in...