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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8475

4 June 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
France to improve budgetary situation as of 2003 and make efforts next year to respect stability pact

Luxembourg, 03/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - It came as no great surprise that the Member States' Finance and Economy Ministers adopted by qualified majority a recommendation on the excessive deficit procedure opened against France, very similar to that of the European Commission (see yesterday's Europe, and of 29 May, p.12) in Luxembourg on Tuesday, given the Eurogroup-level agreement of the evening before. Only the Netherlands and Denmark voted against this text, on the grounds that both feel...

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