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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8644

13 February 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Commission document on financial framework for 2007-13 is more draft and message than budgetary programme

I won't be doing the same as those who began analysing in detail the figures in the European Commission document on the 2007-13 financial perspectives. This document should first of all be assessed for what it is - a draft and message. The graphs containing figures are necessary but they'll change because they relate to the present. The real debate will not begin before autumn when everything will have changed: the new Commission will be up and running (with a new president and at least...

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