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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9146

8 March 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence
France starts debate on end-of-life ships

Innsbruck, 07/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - During the informal meeting of European defence ministers in Innsbruck (Austria) (see related article), French Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie suggested to her EU counterparts on 7 March that together they should seek solutions to the problem of dismantling thousands of military (and civilian) vessels that are rotting away in the world with all the ensuing harmful ecological consequences. She above all called for a European working group to be set up to...

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