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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9254
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/epp-ed

Priorities of Group, which will select its candidate for Presidency of Parliament on 14 November - Constitution: yes to reference to Christianity, but not as pre-condition, stresses Hans-Gert Pöttering

Brussels, 30/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - Sketching out, on 30 August, the EPP-ED group's priorities over the coming months, Hans-Gert Pöttering placed particular emphasis on the Middle East and Lebanon. Those who play down the European Union's role, he said, should remember that, when the European Parliament set up a security and defence sub-committee, of which he was the first chairman, in 1984 (today's chairman is Karl von Wogau: Ed.), everyone laughed. In Lebanon, Europe has a military...

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