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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8989

13 July 2005
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
A few lessons from the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council

The reality we have learned. This commentary is two weeks' late, because the Luxembourg Presidency of the Council ended on 30 June and we're halfway through July already. The reason is simple: I wanted to wait for the referendum of the Grand Duchy on the European Constitution before commenting on the first half of the year, as I felt that this was indirectly linked to the six months of its Presidency. Once Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker announced that he would have stepped down if the...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS