THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/epp congress

Combative leaders cry for victory in June elections - Mr Aznar calls for compromise at IGC and stresses growth (as does Mr Raffarin, who says France will respect Community discipline) - Mr Juncker stresses social dimension of EU, and calls for necessary decisions to be made while those who remember the beginnings are still around

Brussels, 05/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The party leaders and Prime Minister for the Christian Democrat family, who went up to the dais one after the other at the congress of the European People's in Brussels on Thursday morning, all expressed confidence in a new victory for their political groupings in the European elections of next June. In the afternoon, the Congress was to adopt its election manifesto and programme for the forthcoming term, but proposals to exclude former Communist...