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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8265

29 July 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/enlargement
Prodi stresses importance of preparing for a potential delay in enlargement

Brussels, 29/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - Romano Prodi acknowledged on Saturday that the Irish referendum on the Nice Treaty might hold back enlargement, saying that the Commission unanimously agreed the scheduled date should be maintained and confirmed at the Copenhagen Summit, but that it was important to prepare for other eventualities, such as a negative vote in the second Irish referendum. He stressed in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais that enlargement was the Commission's...

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