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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8441

11 April 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/enlargement
"Explanation of some MEPs' "no" votes on accession treaty - SOS democracy criticises conditions for enlargement

Strasbourg, 10/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - Among the MEPs in Wednesday's vote who voted against the accession treaty or abstained (see EUROPE yesterday p 41) were Belgian Socialist Jean-Maurice Dehousse, who only voted "yes" for Cyprus, justifying his "no" vote by the following, "We wanted to build a cathedral and we found ourselves in a large shop", the structures of the EU, "have not been modified to allow the future functioning at 25 let alone the distant future with 40" and the funding of...

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