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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9008

19 August 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/austrian presidency

18/08/2005 (Agence Europe) - In an interview to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 16 August, Austrian Chancellor Wolgang Schüssel was asked what he expected from Tony Blair's presidency (he will be taking over from it in January 2006). He explained that his presidency would begin the debate on the future of Europe and produce a new proposal “to improve the Luxembourg proposal on the budget” (in this context, Schüssel said in passing that the European agricultural model was better...