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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8739

2 July 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin
Dutch Presidency not planning to change the Stability Pact - Permanent Eurogroup Presidency? Commissioner for legislative simplification? Farming to be covered in debate on Financial Perspectives

The Hague, 30/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The Dutch Presidency of the EU does not expect any decisions in the next six months to change the Stability Pact, said Dutch finance minister and new President of the ECOFIN Council, Gerrit Zalm, on Wednesday. He said he didn't think there would be any real legislative changes to the Pact on the cards before the end of the year, as it was more a matter of seeing how the Pact can be properly applied in the future. Zalm told European reporters in The...

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