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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7635

17 January 2000
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The EU should not make the mistake of initiating a debate now on its future frontiers, debate that will only be meaningful once its ambitions and nature have been defined - Avoiding useless and traumatusing debate today

Ukraine, a case to be pondered. Should the EU initiate a far-reaching debate on its future size? Should it define today its possible limits for tomorrow? European Commission President Romano Prodi has called for such debate on several occasions. We have doubts, however, about the advisability of such an initiative in the present circumstances, for a number of reasons that we would like to outline, using the example of Ukraine.

A few months ago, Romano Prodi compared the case of Ukraine to...

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