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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9315
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/armaments

Parliamentary foreign affairs committee appeals for tougher rules on EU arms exports

Brussels, 27/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 23 November the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee appealed for better implementation of the code of conduct on EU arms exports, which dates back to 1998. By adopting by a large majority the own initiative report from Spanish Green Raül Romeva i Rueda (47 votes for, 2 against and no abstentions), the parliamentary committee judges it “unacceptable” that this code has still not been adopted as a common position of the Council (which...

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