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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9647

22 April 2008
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
EU Mediterranean policy can make practical progress in addition to rhetoric and solemn ceremonies

EU clarifies its ideas. The quarrel within the EU over the Euro-Mediterranean project has blown over. The European Council has included the Union for the Mediterranean in the updated Barcelona process and has instructed the European Commission to develop it. We then observed, however, that there was still a non-official tendency in France to ignore the summit's declarations and relaunch the former intergovernmental, rhetorical and inefficient project. The debates and the “Paris Forum...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT