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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8810

20 October 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/weu
WEU Assembly celebrates 50th anniversary and rekindles debate on collective defence

Brussels, 18/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - Fifty years ago, the Federal Republic of Germany entered the Western European Union (WEU) just as the Parliamentary Assembly, which was to give national parliaments a voice in security and defence matters, was being born. These two major changes, with others, were part of the agreements modifying the 1948 Brussels Treaty - agreements signed in Paris on 23 October 1954 and whose 50th anniversary is now being celebrated at the WEU Assembly.

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