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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8236

20 June 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Finance Ministers seek compromise on broad economic policy guidelines

Brussels, 19/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - With a view to the European Council of Seville, the EU Economy and Finance Ministers are to hold a special meeting on Thursday evening in Madrid to seek a compromise solution allowing the adoption, by the Ecofin Council, of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPG) for 2002. During the last Ecofin Council (on 4 June), five Member States (France, Portugal, Germany, United Kingdom and Belgium) had expressed varying degrees of reserve on certain...

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