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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9666

23 May 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/consumers
Parliament paves way for setting up European collective appeals system for cross-border disputes

Brussels, 22/05/2008 (Agence Europe) - Parliament is in favour of a European strategy to enhance consumer confidence in the internal market. On 20 May in Strasbourg, it gave the go ahead by a comfortable majority (438 votes for, 84 against and 166 abstentions) to the Community strategy on consumer policy for 2007-13, presented by the Commission in March 2007 (EUROPE 9385). Following Lasse Lehtinen (PES, Finland), the author of the own-initiative report, MEPs claimed that bolstering consumer...

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