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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9851

1 March 2009
INFORMAL MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL BRUSSELS - 1st MARCH 2008 / (eu) eu/summit
Preventing a new East-West rift in Europe

Brussels, 01/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - Organised ahead of an informal meeting of EU heads of state in Brussels on Sunday 1 March 2009, the leaders of the Central and East European Member States held a separate meeting to stress the need for solidarity within the EU. Speaking after the meeting, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk and the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said that this solidarity has to take the form of respecting the rules of the internal market and...