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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9932

1 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/euromed
Belgium challenges arrangements by France to keep UfM joint presidency

Brussels, 30/06/2009 (Agence Europe) - Belgium, which will be holding EU Presidency during the second half of 2010, considers that the co-presidency of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) should correspond to the practice of half-yearly rotating presidency as practised in the EU. In a letter to his Spanish counterpart, extracts of which were revealed by The Financial Times on 29 June, Karel De Gucht, Belgian Foreign Minister, said he was astounded to learn that the arrangement reached by...

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