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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8353

4 December 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/france
De Villepin calls on EU to "illustrate new borders" - turkey in "first circle" - A president of the European Council with a mandate extended by six months (without excluding a single Commission/Council presidency

Brussels, 03/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - In a speech in Marseilles on Monday evening, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dominique de Villepin, sketched a vision of Europe in three circles and underlined that it was necessary to design new borders. Mr de Villepin, who will be participating in the work of the European Convention for the first time as representative of the French authorities includes current Member States and the ten new ones in the first circle, "in a few years time...

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