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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8464

17 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competitiveness
Still no agreement on takeover bids

Brussels, 16/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Presidency had planned to arrive at a "general approach" at Monday's Competitiveness Council, in order to make progress towards agreement on the "takeover bids" directive by June. However, agreement seems unlikely at this stage. "All options are on the table, but we still don't have any conclusions in one direction or another", indicated the Greek Presidency on Friday. The Commission had presented a new proposal in October 2002 (replacing the one...

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