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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8280

22 August 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/euratom
Working paper says EP must demonstrate that it has a contribution to make to sensitive issues in Euratom treaty

Brussels, 21/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - "Control by democratically elected Parliaments was not exactly a significant feature of the nuclear sector in the 1950s. All the nuclear weapons States developed their military technology in secret, free from scrutiny by their national Parliaments…Thus it comes as no surprise that monitoring and control by the European "Assembly" (now officially "Parliament" since the adoption of the European Single Act) was not a strong feature of the Euratom Treaty,...

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