login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8718

4 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/weu/assembly
Mr De Decker calls for "interparliamentary forum" to provide parliamentary control of ESDP - Baltic States invited to join modified Treaty of Brussels

Brussels, 03/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - In his opening speech to the plenary session of the Assembly of the Western European Union-Interparliamentary European Security and Defence Assembly in Paris on Wednesday, President Armand De Decker reiterated the need to create an "Interparliamentary Forum" of the European Union in order to exert parliamentary control over the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), and avoid a democratic deficit, which he feels is unworthy of the Union and its...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS