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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8648

19 February 2004
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/cohesion
Commissioner Barnier calls on states to accept "reasonable" price for new partnership in cohesion policy for enlarged EU

Brussels, 18/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner Barnier is calling on governments to take responsibility for meeting the challenges of the enlarged Europe and be willing to pay the price for it. He said this during the presentation in Brussels on Wednesday of the "third cohesion report. He declared that the cost of the "new partnership for cohesion" proposed by the Commission was reasonable but anticipated difficult negotiations with the "Six", who had called for a freeze on Community...

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