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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9861

14 March 2009
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/memorial
30th anniversary of Jean Monnet's death

Strasbourg, 13/03/2009 (Agence Europe) -16 March will be the 30th anniversary of the death of Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of Europe. To mark the occasion, Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the European Parliament, took pains to remind his audience at the opening of the plenary session in Strasbourg on Wednesday 11 March, "of all that he did for European unification". He went on to pay tribute to "what he bequeathed us". Together with Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet was "one of...

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