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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8295

12 September 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/defence
Greek Defence Minister hopes EU rapid reaction force will be operational end 2002 and that question of EU/NATO relations will be settled in near future

Brussels, 11/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Greek Defence Minister Yiannos Papantoniou presented his government's security and defence objectives to the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday. Greece has presided the meetings of the Military Committees since 1 July, for twelve months, because of Denmark's "opt-out" in this area. The Greek Minister clearly wishes to give impetus to the ESDP with priority objectives such as: - an EU rapid reaction force operational end 2002,...

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