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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8144
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/stability pact

By warning Germany, Commission did its duty, says Prodi, defending Verheugen

Strasbourg, 05/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - The polemics over the warning to Germany in the framework of the respect of the Stability Pact ("blue letter", as the Germans say, alluding to the letters that teachers send schoolchildren who need to be put back on the right path) continued in Strasbourg. At a press conference on other subjects, President Prodi stipulated that the Commission's decision in no way rested on a political judgement (contrary to what Chancellor Schroeder seems to believe:...

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