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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8030
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin

Solbes declares Bonn's intention not to modify aims of Stability and Growth Pact

Brussels, 21/08/2001 (Agence Europe) - In order to refute the allegations whereby France and Germany hope to relax the euro zone's budgetary stability pact, Commissioner Pedro Solbes declared that German Finance Minister Hans Eichel had "confirmed that the German authorities have no intention of relaxing or redefining the objectives or the framework of the Stability and Growth Pact". Mr Solbes recalled that this commitment was recently confirmed by the finance ministers during the Eurogroup...

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