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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8700

6 May 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/president/elections/commission
Pat Cox announces that he will not be standing in European elections (gives assurances that EP will play full role in final phase of IGC - Charles Pasqua expects that they'll see him again

Strasbourg, 05/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - In his last speech as president of the European Parliament, in a balance sheet that was largely positive (on which we will return), Pat Cox, said on Wednesday in Strasbourg "This morning, I informed my supporters in my Munster constituency that I do not intend to stand in the forthcoming election...Europe has been the cause of my political life. I will continue serving the cause in any way that I can". This provoked comments from the president of the...

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