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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8688

20 April 2004
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
A few comments on the hearings of the Commissioners from the new Member States

An encouraging success. The new Member States have got through an extra phase of their integration into the Community institutions. In their hearings before the committees of the European Parliament, the Commissioners from the countries of central and eastern Europe, Cyprus and Malta were all "unanimously accepted", and this result will doubtless be confirmed in Strasbourg by the plenary on 5 May. I am fully aware that the candidates left Mr Swoboda with "an image of low-profile...

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