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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8911

18 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/spring summit/national parliaments
Meeting with national parliaments results in broad consensus on reviving Lisbon strategy and need for parliaments to be involved - Barroso and Juncker explain Bolkestein Directive

Brussels, 17/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - President Borrell's initiative to bring MEPs and national MPs together on 16 and 17 March, in Brussels, to discuss rekindling of the Lisbon Strategy demonstrated the interest of EU25 parliaments to be involved in the implementation of the strategy in order to revive it, after the somewhat disappointing experience over the past five years since the first spring summit in March 2000, in Lisbon. It also allowed Jean-Claude Juncker to state what he expects...

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