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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7709

4 May 2000
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: The ills and shortcomings of the Council are now well known but the remedies not obvious - The heads of government will no longer shirk the responsibilities they have assumed

An unaccommodating analysis. When Pierre de Boissieu speaks of the EU Council, he needs to be listening to with care, for at least three reasons. The first: he is its Deputy Secretary General, he thus knows what he is speaking about "from the inside". Second reason: in previous years, as France's Permanent Representative, he took an active part in all the work of the Council. Third reason: his frankness is almost legendary, MEPs who heard him last month speak for almost two hours (see the...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION