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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8065

8 October 2001
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/economy
EP calls for strengthened role for Eurogroup and European Commission and for national parliaments to take part in debate on Broad Economic Policy Guidelines

Strasbourg, 08/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Adopting the report by French Socialist Pervenche Berès on the European Commission's Communication on strengthening economic policy coordination within the euro area by 394 to 45 with 56 abstentions, the European Parliament felt that such a strengthening would mean the "Eurogroup … must play an enhanced and higher-profile role" and "the Commission must fully exercise its right of initiative in line with the role assigned to it by the Treaty, and...

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