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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8438

8 April 2003
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EU/CONVENTION/COMMISSION: Barnier wants clause in Treaty to enable defence avant-garde to take off (four-way Brussels Summit may be useful if it does "proposal work") - Overall, Commission is satisfied with Praesidium's proposals, said Vitorino, highlighting importance of sticking to timetable

Brussels, 07/04/2003 (Agence Europe) - European Commissioners Michel Barnier and Antonio Vitorino, both of whom are on the European Convention's Praesidium (seconded by David O'Sullivan and Paolo Ponzano) told reporters on Monday that the Commission is broadly satisfied with the draft articles tabled by the Praesidium to date. Barnier and Vitorino shrugged off the contradictory criticisms of the Commission's work at the Convention being, in Barnier's words, "too active or too secretly...

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