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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8208

9 May 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/steel/united states
Member States provide green light to EU's defensive strategy - EU calls for WTO panel - Search for agreement with United States

Brussels, 08/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Despite reservation recently shown by the United Kingdom, Germany and even more openly by Sweden, the European Commission secured the unanimous "green light" on Tuesday from the Fifteen to move ahead with its defensive and dissuasive strategy faced with the almost closed American steel market. The same day, it formally asked, on behalf of the Union, for the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to hand an arbitration panel the care of checking the legality of...

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