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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8796

30 September 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 11 / 31
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/barroso commission/competition
Neelie Kroes does not convince Socialists who say their judgement cannot, however, be based on criminal allegations against her

Brussels, 29/09/2004 (Agence Europe) - On the whole "we are very disappointed" by the presentation made by Neelie Kroes, Commissioner-designate for competition, during her hearing, Hannes Sbowoda, Jan Mariunus Wiersma and Ieke van den Burg said on behalf of the Socialist Group at the EP (see yesterday's EUROPE, pages 5 and 6). They deplore the fact that the Dutch candidate's responses were "very vague and evasive" and say they were "no satisfactory answers at all", especially on two points:...

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