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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8541

13 September 2003
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 47
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/informal ecofin
Commission sounds out Member States about French deficit - Netherlands and Austria refuse "exceptional circumstances" evoked by Paris

Stresa, 12/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - The informal Ecofin Council meeting at Stresa in Italy will be "very decisive" of preparing the Commission's position on the French deficit, declared Commissioner Pedro Solbes before the work kicked off. He commented that, "We are here to conclude an agreement" but that the debates would allow for France's position to be heard just when the French government was finishing preparations for the financial law on 24 September, a s well as the different...

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