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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8243

28 June 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Institutional measures decided at Seville are positive but incomplete because of differences on fundamental issues - some practical improvement while awaiting large-scale reform

Foreign Affairs Ministers defend their powers. The institutional decisions approved by the Seville Summit do not correspond entirely to that suggested by the Secretary General of the Council, Javier Solana. The idea of splitting up of the General Affairs Council, for example, into two bodies, one responsible for external relations (including trade questions) and ESDP (defence), and the other with the preparation of the Summits and horizontal questions, has been abandoned. The formula that's...

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