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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8601

9 December 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc
End of Intergovernmental Conference in sight - Ministers fail to resolve question of neutral countries and common defence

Brussels, 08/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - In their final meeting in Brussels on Monday in the framework of the Intergovernmental Conference, the EU foreign ministers failed to agree on the only two issues on their agenda, namely defence and the budget procedure. On defence, they failed to agree on a text that would have reassured the four neutral countries (Austria, Ireland, Finland and Sweden) about the mutual aid clause. On the budget procedure, they failed to reconcile disagreements between...

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