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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8437

5 April 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence/germany
Schröder: Britain's involvement paramount- Fischer: Start with a Schengen-style formula

Berlin, 04/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an speech on international politics at the Bundestag on Thursday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder pleaded in favour of a "European Union of Security and Defence", from which "nobody can and should be excluded". The more Member States who get involved in progressing this policy, the better, he said, insisting: "to me, it is particularly important that the United Kingdom, which has done so much in the past to push forward the European Security and Defence...

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