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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8246

3 July 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/future of europe
Rasmussen rejects Chirac and Blair's plan for five-year EU presidency

Brussels, 02/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with The Financial Times, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has been President-in-Office of the European Council since 1 July, took a stance, as other leaders of "small" countries had done before him, against the proposals put forward by the French President, Jacques Chirac, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The French and British leaders' plan is to create a high-profile post to give the EU more political direction...

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