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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8298

16 September 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/france
After meeting Raffarin, Prodi says he is open to France's demand to lower VAT by 5.5% on catering - Paris reiterates its position on keeping CAP acquis until 2006

Brussels, 16/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin gained Romano Prodi's support on Monday, in Brussels, to the request for lowering VAT on catering and sound recordings. During a press conference, both men, who met for the first time since the right wing victory at the French legislative elections in June and who decided to meet again every three months, appeared to be on the same wave length on the subject of enlargement, the future of the European...

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