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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9623

15 March 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/european council
EU launches “Barcelona Process: Union for Mediterranean”

Brussels, 14/03/2008 (Agence Europe) - Around midnight on Thursday 13 March, European Council President Janez Jansa announced that Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel had informed the European Council of their joint proposal on setting up a Union for the Mediterranean to strengthen the Barcelona process. The initiative received “wide support” and work will now begin in the various Council bodies, the Slovenian prime minister said, indicating that the change of name reflected “an updating...

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