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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8249

6 July 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
At the Commission seminar on Wednesday on the Union's industrial policy, there will be overall reflection on a very broad set of problems - In favour of a change in mentality

Attempt at definition. The seminar that the European Commission will devote, next Wednesday, to the Union's industrial policy puts an end to the time when even the words "industrial policy" were banned. In the past, the public authorities and the general public of Member States felt the term evoked Soviet five-year plans and the definition by public authorities of sectoral production targets in contradiction to free market principles and competition. But that time is now over. It is the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
TIMETABLE