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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8262

25 July 2002
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/convention
Leinen is not for "Congress of the Peoples of Europe"

Brussels, 24/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - The "Congress of the Peoples of Europe" (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.7), suggested by the Chairman of the European Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, is "superfluous", states SPD member Jo Leinen in a press release. In his view, "either such a Congress has no decision-making competence, in which case it is purely a token institution or it does have the power to decide, but that would be at the expense of the role of the European Parliament as...

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