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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8123

7 January 2002
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 34
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Lessons of the Belgian Presidency - Guy Verhofstadt's gradual apprenticeship and Louis Michel's two spectacular shifts

The advantage of being a small country. The balance sheet of the Belgian Presidency of the Council has been widely publicised to the European Parliament and public opinion and there is no need to go over the details, especially since the Presidencies are not uniquely responsible for either the positive impacts or the failures; I prefer to put forward various ideas, starting with a common-or-garden comment - the Belgian Presidency proved that there is no relation between the size of a country...

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