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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9223
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/finnish presidency

Finland aims at transparency and concrete results to counter EU legitimacy crisis - Vladimir Putin is invited to informal summit in October

Helsinki, 30/06/2006 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 30 June, in Helsinki, as he presented to the press his government's priorities on the eve of the Finnish EU Presidency, Matti Vanhanen, Finland's Prime Minister, said Finland intends to make the Union more acceptable to its citizens as it is suffering from a lack of legitimacy; He said that “openness and transparency” as well as “concrete results” - such as a final agreement on the services directive in the internal market - will be...

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