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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9676

6 June 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/esdp
Parliament calls for Eurocorps to be permanent force under EU command - Prospect of White Paper on implementation of security strategy

Brussels, 05/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - It was with an overwhelming majority of 500 to 106 and 36 abstentions that the European Parliament voted, on Thursday 5 May, for adoption of the report by German Social Democrat Helmut Kuhne, for a strengthened European security and defence policy.

The Parliament calls on member states concerned to study the possibilities - and the impact that these could have - of submitting existing multinational forces to permanent structured cooperation as...

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