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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8295

12 September 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Finance ministers hesitant about European Commission's suggestions and guidelines on reform and consolidation of economic and monetary union - Convention must deal with it

A bit of clarity. The great debate going on the revision or a more subtle application and flexible application of the Maastricht and Stability Pact criteria is making what the European Commission has already proposed, appear abstract. I know very well that the politics introduced over recent years in Member States and the natural renewal of generations result in the fact that today's decision-makers are not those who negotiated and approved the Maastricht Treaty in the past; but the...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION