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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8905

10 March 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/lisbon strategy
Barroso and Verheugen's plea convinces most MEPs apart from GUE and Greens - Schmit declares governance is “really at heart” of mid term review of strategy - Commission says financial perspectives for making Lisbon successful are adequate

Strasbourg, 09/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Efforts made at Wednesday's plenary by president Barroso and vice president Verheugen to convince the European Parliament that the Lisbon strategy (the main theme at the Spring Summit on 22-23 March): see below) is something that touches every European, apparently bore fruit, even on the benches where some of the left were sitting. The Socialists therefore, who chose to confront the centre right on a series of votes at the last plenary, gave their...

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