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Schuessel approaches Verhofstadt on behalf of eight countries excluded from London Summit and calls for European safety standards for nuclear power plants

Brussels, 08/11/2001 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on 8 November, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel approached the President of the European Council, Guy Verhofstadt on behalf of the eight EU governments that were not invited to the London Summit of 4 November (other than Austria, Sweden, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece and Portugal), stating, as he had told the press, that all Member States of the Union had to be treated as "equal members". This approach was a "joint...