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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8611

20 December 2003
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Removing the uncertainty between reinforced co-operation and vanguards

A dangerous weapon. I know that I have used the argument of the vanguard, or "pioneer group" throughout the IGC, as a means of pressure for the Constitution's approval, to get the message across to the reluctant countries: if you don't want to move forward, the others will do it without you. But at the same time, I knew that this was a dangerous weapon. Positions or declarations on this, even at the highest levels, prove the existence of a certain level of confusion about the concept itself....

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
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ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
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