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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8507

18 July 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/cohesion
Barnier report pleads in favour of cohesion policy covering whole territory - regions reject Sapir report

Brussels, 17/07/2003 (Agence Europe) - A confidential report written under the aegis of Commissioner Barnier pleads forcefully in favour of the European cohesion policy, and for it to be kept in place throughout the European Union after 2007. Presented on Sunday at the Commission seminar by the Commissioner in charge of regional policy, at the same time as the Sapir report, it offers a radically different point of view. On Wednesday, Mr Barnier rejected the "nonsensical " and "unreal"...

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