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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9586
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy

Commission assesses first series of stability and convergence programmes

Brussels, 23/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - The seven stability or convergence programmes examined by the Commission on Wednesday 23 January are, for the most part, satisfactory. The budgetary course taken by Germany, Finland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands is “remarkable” as these eurozone member states have all reached their medium-term objectives, Joaquin Almunia, Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, was pleased to state in a press release the same day. The budgetary situation is...

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(EU) EU/ECONOMY: Commission assesses first series of stability and convergence programmes
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