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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8616

6 January 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/italian presidency/commission
Romano Prodi criticises Italian Presidency - Franco Frattini answers criticism - Prodi speaks of pioneer group to which new Member States will belong

Brussels, 05/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published by La Repubblica on 2 January, once the Italian Presidency had ended, the President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, came out of his reserve and criticised the Italian Presidency, "despite the serious commitment by Italian officials to obtain a number of concrete results". On 3 January, in the same newspaper, the Italian Foreign Minister answered this criticism saying that, if such accusations are true, then why were...

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