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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8519

6 August 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 18
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/esdp
Italian presidency to take ESDP from "pioneering to more advanced stage", affirms programme for this six months - supports relations with Russia that are "just as intense" as those with NATO

Brussels, 05/08/2003 (Agence Europe) - In its chapter on European Security and Defence Policy, the programme of the Italian Presidency of the Council of European has underlined that it will use the Presidency to "take ESDP from a pioneering to a more advanced stage of maturity". In particular, it will take the necessary measures for "enhancing the operational credibility of the European military project", indicates the Presidency, noting that "to do this, it will be based on a coherent...