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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8716

2 June 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 30 / 44
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/latin america
Guadalajara Summit reaffirms social objectives but remains vague on how to pay for them

Guadalajara, 01/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The debate on "social cohesion" and the need to fight inequality, during the EU/Latin America/Caribbean Summit in Guadalajara was above all an admission of failure: structural adjustment policies recommended by international financial organisations, national taxation policies, development aid. The Summit's final statement reaffirms the Millennium Objective of reducing poverty by half in the world in 2015 and spending 0.75% of industrialised...

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