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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8359
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Myrsini Zorba wants children to be given legal status in Treaty

Brussels, 11/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - Pasok member Myrsini Zorba MEP has written to her colleagues asking them to back his initiative of better protecting the 90 million children under 18, who will be the "future citizens" of the European Union. "the future of Europe is the future of children", Ms. Zorba tells the Convention.

Recalling that EU Member States have ratified the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, but that the EU itself is not party to the text, the MEP calls on the...

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