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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9309

18 November 2006
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/internal market
Charlie McCreevy says agreement cannot be reached on harmonising gambling in EU

Strasbourg, 17/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - 'In my political life I have not been afraid to take on impossible causes and tilt at windmills and run into brick walls, but I think that if we did attempt some kind of harmonisation of this area (gambling and betting, Ed.), what we would end up with, if anything, would be the most illiberal piece of legislation ever to go through any House anywhere in the world, because this is not possible,' said EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy in...

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