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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8891

18 February 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 35 / 49
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade unions/finance
John Monks calls on finance ministers to reconsider Stability Pact in sense of reconciliation between “Maastricht” and “Lisbon”

Brussels, 17/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - On the occasion of the Ecofin Council of 17 February, the European Trade Union Confederatin (ETUC) calls on finance ministers in a press release to “avoid making the Pact even more rigid” and puts forward “clear proposals for a new European fiscal framework that balances the objective of stability with the objective of growth” (see other article).

Thus, ETUC proposes: 1) to take the national situation more into account when applying the Pact by...

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