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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8627

21 January 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial perspectives
Romano Prodi defends increase of resources for enlarged Europe - "Strange" time to ask for ceiling of 1%

London, 20/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - This is "a strange time to propose to reduce the ceiling of EU resources to 1%, as certain Member States have suggested", because "it is important that as of 2007, we give the European Institutions the resources to achieve the objectives set by the leaders of Europe themselves in the European Council". These were the words President Prodi used in a speech on Monday to the London School of Economics, on "a Constitution for Europe", to rejected the request...

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