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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8952
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport/development

Barroso supports contribution on airline tickets to help development

Brussels, 23/05/2005 (Agence Europe) - The president of the European Commission has said that he supports the setting up of a voluntary contribution from airline passengers as an additional source of development aid. On Friday in a speech at the London School of Economics José Manuel Barroso said that “a contribution of EUR 1, for example, for each passenger would mean a real collective effort by Europeans in support of the fight against poverty, disease and starvation”. He pointed out...

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