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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8217

24 May 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/fisheries
Fischler denies having been influenced on proposals of reform of the Fisheries Policy and denies Smidt had been "sacrificed" at Spain's request

Brussels, 23/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Franz Fischler denied, on Thursday before the members of the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries, that he had been influenced or pressurised about the content and the postponement of his proposals on the future of Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). ("The allegations to the contrary are false and I reject them categorically", he said). Mr Fischler also declared there was no link between these delays and the European Commission's...

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