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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8465

20 May 2003
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/slovakia
Commission welcomes result of accession referendum

Brussels, 19/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has welcomed the fact that Slovakia voted massively in favour of accession to the Union (92.46%) during last weekend's referendum. Participation in this referendum, the first to be held in Slovakia since independence, was over the 50% required for it to be valid (52.15%), said the Commission in a press release, in which it spoke of the strong willingness of the Slovakian people to join the European family of democratic...

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