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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9346
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/german presidency

European Parliament debates working programme of German Presidency with Angela Merkel

Strasbourg, 17/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - For the new President of the European Council, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the declaration on the programme of the German Presidency before the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday morning was a first; for the packed house of MEPs, it came as a partial surprise: visibly astonished, at least to start with, by the content of the speech by the new Presidency (littered with quotations and words such as "tolerance" and "soul"), the MEPs did...

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