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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7953

27 April 2001
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/future of europe/finland
Halonen confirms her opposition to hard core

Warsaw, 26/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - In an speech she made in Warsaw on 25 April, the President of the Republic of Finland, Tarja Halonen, reaffirmed her opposition to the idea of a "hard core in the EU, a kind of vanguard or pioneering group". Some "have even gone as far as proposing new separate institutions and secretariats for such a group", she said, considering that this way of thinking was "outmoded", and is a "kind of nostalgia". According to her, in the EU there is "not a single...

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