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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9817

14 January 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/latvia
President Zatlers appeals for a Europe that is bonded together in solidarity and one that is not at several speeds

Strasbourg, 13/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Greeted on Tuesday 13 January by the European anthem (President Pöttering explained that this was being played for the first time at Parliament during a solemn sitting), the President of Latvia, Valdis Zatlers, immediately pointed out that with his country becoming independent again, it had since 1991 sought to enter the “democratic European family”, to which it felt it had always belonged. The national day which was recently set up seeks to...

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