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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8533

3 September 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/cohesion
Barnier willing to renew but not abandon cohesion policy

Strasbourg, 02/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - European Commissioner Michel Barnier said on Tuesday that he was open to reform of the Union's cohesion policy. He repeated: "We agree to renovate, even radically, but not to do away with or renationalise this policy". During the debate on the Mastorakis and Pomes Ruiz reports, Mr Barnier swore that the Commission works in transparency, that "we do not have a hidden agenda, and we do not have a secret card on structural funds - everything has been on...

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