THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/european council

LUXEMBOURG PRESIDENCY: Juncker explains that his final proposals on British rebate could have made a difference to correcting position of Netherland's net contributor status and rectified deformed image of CAP in EU spending - Juncker says “we need political Europe” and calls on “all old Europeans, convinced Europeans to take heart and go forward”

Brussels, 22/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - Congratulated at the beginning and end of his speech with a standing ovation from MEPs, the president of the European Council, Jean-Claude Juncker gave the European Parliament a picture on 22 June of the details of the raft of efforts made by his presidency to try and get an EU25 agreement on financial perspectives 2007-13 on the night of 17-18 June in Brussels. Last January, he told MEPs, he knew that such an agreement would be difficult and he had...