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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8631

27 January 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/canada
Summit in Ottawa on 18 March - Towards a new bilateral agreement - Lamy meets Peterson

Brussels, 26/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - After a 'very friendly and frank' first meeting with his new Canadian homologue Jim Peterson in Brussels on Monday, European Commissioner Pascal Lamy said that the European Union and Canada hoped to launch negotiations over a bilateral agreement to facilitate trade and investment at the EU-Canada summit in Ottawa on 18 March. This agreement is a priority for us, but it is not free trade, noted Peterson. He added that another priority was solving the...

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