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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9459

3 July 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/france/emu
Teixeira dos Santos banking on peer pressure to persuade Paris to meet its budgetary commitments

Lisbon, 02/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - Portuguese Finance Minister Teixeira dos Santos, wishing to “alert France to what I hope will be the reaction of its partners”, left it to the pressure from his counterparts to encourage Paris to meet its commitments on budgetary consolidation. With French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will present the French strategy to the Eurogroup and to Ecofin, planning on France bringing public finances back into balance by 2012, Mr dos Santos wants to be...

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