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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8591
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/stability pact

Differences of opinion on approach to be taken to Berlin

Brussels, 24/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - On the eve of a decisive Ecofin Council for Germany (see p.7), the President of the European Parliament, Pat Cox, said that smaller countries, which got a "yellow card" for failing to respect the Stability Pact, would like to see the same strictness meted out to the larger ones, and that "rules are rules: we must be strict, and France and Germany must face sanctions like anybody else". He added that "as a President who comes from a small country,...

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