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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8054
SPECIAL EDITION FOR THE EXTRAORDINARY EUROPEAN COUNCIL IN BRUSSELS ON 21 SEPTEMBER / (eu) ep/european council

Nicole Fontaine stresses need to avoid any assimilation - Deadlock broken over Money Laundering Directive?

Brussels, 22/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - The President of the European Parliament, Nicole Fontaine, told journalists after her speech to EU Heads of State (see EUROPE of 21 September, p.3) that she had taken a message from the Parliament to the Summit which can be summed up in three words: "solidarity, firmness and effectiveness". She explained that for the Parliament, any riposte that the EU was associated with in solidarity with the United States had to be well thought out, targeted and...