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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8194

18 April 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Pedro Solbes begins institutional process that must read to greater balance between economic and financial rapport in EMU - discussion of possible amendment of Stability Pact

The "Common Standards" of Pedro Solbes. The European Commission has taken a first step in the mandate given to it at the Barcelona Summit. This consists of presenting the Council with "proposals for improving the co-ordination of economic policies" within a reasonable time before Spring 2003 (in practice before the end of this year). The objective explicitly explained by government leaders is to strengthen the co-ordination mechanisms for budgetary policies in Euro-zone countries by...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION