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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8075

21 October 2001
INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF GHENT OF 19 OCTOBER - SPECIAL EDITION / (eu) eu/future of europe
Verhofstadt announces a convention, meeting from March 2002 to June 2003, with a Presidium of five members and seeking a consensus or majority options, with the participation of candidates (but the case of Turkey remains to be clarified)

Ghent, 20/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - "We had a very encouraging and stimulating discussion on the future of Europe, especially for my colleagues, I hope, as I've no need of either stimulation or encouragement when I think of the Laeken declaration", said Guy Verhofstadt at his second press conference (where Romano Prodi was missing, but asked about that, the Belgian Prime Minister said that the President of the Commission had made his excuses as he had had to leave: "there is no eel under the...