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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8576

31 October 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc
BERLUSCONI/BLAIR MEETING/SCHRÖDER IN BRATISLAVA

Brussels, 30/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday Silvio Berlusconi had a one and a half hour meeting with Tony Blair in Downing Street. The latter confirmed his hostility to the extension of qualified majority to areas such as taxation, and his preference for a Foreign Affairs Minister attached to the European Council. On European defence, Messrs Berlusconi and Blair again insisted on complementarity with NATO. "We shouldn't be seen as being dogmatic" with regard to the request by the...

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