login
login

Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7770

3 August 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 34
THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/ESDP: First EU/NATO meetings and "15+15" reassure EU partners - COPS/NAC meeting mid-September, meeting on 21 November with third country Defence Ministers - Initial version of forces catalogue to be polished by November's ministerial

Brussels, 01/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - At the end of July, EU work in view of developing the European Security and Defence Policy gained speed, with the adoption of an initial version of the catalogue of forces that will be required to constitute the "Headline Goal", the rapid reaction force of some 60,000 troops that the EU intends setting up (see EUROPE of 29 July, p.3), and with the first meetings of three of the four working groups created to allow for consultation of non-EU European...

Contents

THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION