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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8330

30 October 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) weu/eu/convention
WEU Assembly sends Barnier working group a report calling for elaboration of European strategic concept, majority decision-taking for ESDP too, a formal Council of Defence Ministers and an autonomous command chain

Paris, 29/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Western European Union's Defence Committee, chaired by German Social-Democrat Dieter Schloten has adopted a report on "A European Defence Policy" that it has sent to the defence working group of the European Convention, chaired by European Commissioner Michel Barnier. "We hope that the working group will draw upon the Assembly's unique experience as the first European inter-parliamentary forum for security and defence", says Schloten in his press...

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