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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8466

21 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/new neighbours
Don't raise false hopes, say MEPs, with different stresses on East or South, and why not Norway?

Strasbourg, 20/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - Parliament last week heard statements on the European Commission's initiative on the "new" neighbours of the European Union after enlargement: in general, MEPs approved of the Commission's approach, but several of them stressed the need to be wary of raising false hopes, and thus frustrations, in the countries in question. The Commissioner for Enlargement, Günter Verheugen, noted that there is no precise "concept" as yet, and that not much has...

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