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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8374

9 January 2003
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
: Lessons to be drawn from the Convention's debate on foreign and defence policy - Accepting "differentiation" between Member States for safeguarding institutional unity

Yesterday's readers of this column, who had the patience to go through my attempt at summarising the first real official debate on the fundamental choices for Europe, will wonder about the lessons to be drawn from it. The question is that of knowing whether an enlarged Europe aims to be a political and economic entity, with its cohesion, its common policies and its solidarity extended to foreign and defence policy, or whether it will be diluted into a free trade area, which is no doubt...

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