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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8591

25 November 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget 2004
Disagreement between two branches of budgetary authority on how to fund aid to IRAQ

Brussels, 24/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - the Member States and the delegation of the European Parliament struggled on Monday evening to agree on how to finance aid to Iraq, although the amounts proposed were not themselves in question (160 million EUR in 2004, plus 40 million EUR in 2003). At the time EUROPE went to press, the issue of mobilising the flexibility instrument for aid to Iraq dominated the work at second reading of the draft budget 2004 by the Ecofin Council, which met in...

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