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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8894

23 February 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 16 / 31
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/emu
Right and Left clash over Broad Guidelines for Economic Policy and over public finances - Commissioner Almunia: better links between budgetary discipline and growth strategy - Improvements to Pact at heart of debate: EP wants discussion before Council decision

Strasbourg, 22/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The debate on macroeconomic policy in Europe is becoming “increasingly ideological”, the Luxembourg socialist Robert Goebbels said on Tuesday when presenting to the Plenary his report on the Broad Guidelines for Economic Policy. It was a report which, he said, had been “warped” in the committees by those who wanted to get rid of all reference to the need for cooperation between economic policies (even though article 4 of the Treaty requires...

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