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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8503

12 July 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/ukraine
Commission repeats how attached it is to freedom of the press

Brussels, 11/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - In answer to questions on the law that was adopted recently in Ukraine to allow the secret services of that country to arrest journalists in order, among other things, to know what their information sources are, Diego de Ojeda, a spokesperson of the European Commission, stressed the impact that such a law would have on relations between the EU and Ukraine. "It is clear that freedom of the press is far from satisfactory" in Ukraine, he said, adding that,...

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