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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8592

26 November 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget 2004
Agreement on sum total and funding of aid to Iraq - Council gets Parliament to agree to extra credits for CFSP and increase in payment appropriations restricted to 2.3%

Brussels, 25/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Ecofin Council (which met in its Budget configuration) reached an agreement on Monday evening at second reading on the draft budget for 2004, notably providing for aid of 200 million EUR to Iraq (160 million EUR in 2004 and 40 million by redeploying credits from the current budget), and to increase credits for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) to 62.6 million (PESC). The EP has agreed to undertake not to increase the credit...

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