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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8169

13 March 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Jacques Chirac's plan for Europe comprises considerable innovations and some ambiguities

Jacques Chirac has possibly made an error of communication: the speech he made last week on Europe (see our bulleting of 7 March, p.7) was in the context of his electoral campaign and he made it available on the site of a political movement. This speech thus passed unnoticed internationally and was viewed as an electoral move at home. It does, however, seem to point towards a significant development in French stances along favourable lines towards increasingly strong European integration,...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
SUPPLEMENT