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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8379

16 January 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/greek presidency
Risk of conflict in Iraq at centre of debates - Cohn-Bendit calls on Simitis to gather together Chirac, Schroeder, Blair and Aznar to define common position (Council to discuss issue on 27 January)

Strasbourg, 15/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - During the debate on the Greek Presidency, at the European Parliament Tuesday afternoon, the priorities of the Presidency receive a broad consensus on the part of Parliament, even though some MEPs regretted certain shortcomings. The President of the EPP-ED Group, Hans-Gert Poettering, expressly called on the Presidency's support for a Mediterranean initiative, among other things, to find an answer to the problem of illegal immigration into the Union....

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