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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8466

21 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) balkans
Council calls on Coreper to find solutions for additional funding for Balkans - Council conclusions

Brussels, 20/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - President of the EU Council, George Papandreou, declared at the end of Monday's Council, that the Balkans countries would be a "priority" at the Salonika Summit on 20-21 June. "It's a region in which we find the future members of the EU", he indicated, adding that among the Union Member States was a "very broad consensus on the need to grant more funding to the countries in the region" to help them progress towards the EU (the Presidency presented the...

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