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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8629

23 January 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
The point of meetings between the three giants of the EU

The ultimate weapon against a board of directors. What is the point, to Europe, of meetings between the "three giants" of the EU, who have announced a new Summit for next month? The right answer seems obvious to me: to fight to strengthen the "Community method" against a forcible return to the intergovernmental method. To criticise meetings between groups of Member States or try to oppose them would be a nonsense. Bilateral or trilateral meetings have always existed and always will; it can...

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