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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8869

19 January 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ecofin council
Controversy-free Council approves Economic Policy Committee's report on structural reforms and five Stability and Convergence Programmes

Brussels, 18/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, the ECOFIN Council took note of and endorsed the Economic Policy Committee's annual report on structural reforms (for 2005) that echoes the Kok Report on the mid-term review of the Lisbon Process by highlighting the urgent need to implement reforms, despite some progress described by the EPC over the past twelve months. Using the EPC report as a basis for discussion, and with one eye on the Spring European Council of 22/23 March 2005, the...

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