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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8910

17 March 2005
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/spring summit/national parliaments
Juncker says summit will “confirm three Lisbon dimensions” (which go “together” with Stability Pact), focus on governance and adopt declaration on sustainable development - Services Directive will not be adopted as it is, as summit will state “one way or another”

Brussels, 16/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - Addressing the national parliamentarians, who were all gathered in Brussels on Wednesday by President Borrell to discuss the Lisbon strategy (to which we shall return in detail), Jean-Claude Juncker gave the broad lines of what he expects from the spring summit on 22 and 23 March after the report on implementation of the strategy since March 2000, which can be considered “appalling”. The conclusions of the European Council will confirm the “three...

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