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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8565

17 October 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc
Italian presidency tries to identify difficult points and envisage bilateral consultation for smoothing out final difficulties before presenting overall compromise before end of November

Brussels, 16/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Intergovernmental Conference began on Thursday morning, a little behind schedule, with the late arrival of some Heads of State and Government, whose had been stuck above Brussels. The debate focused on certain institutional issues but did not allow for any concrete solutions to be reached. It was not the object of the exercise, given that the Italian Presidency chose for the instant, to extend the listening phase by gradually trying to identify the...

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