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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8976

24 June 2005
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THE DAY IN POLITICS
(EU) EP/BRITISH PRESIDENCY: Tony Blair believes in “Europe as a political project”, urging for modernisation and promising his Presidency will take forward the budget deal” (denying having wanted to dismantle CAP “overnight”)

Brussels, 23/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - “In every crisis there is an opportunity. There is one here for Europe now, if we have the courage to take it”, Tony Blair began in his speech to the European Parliament on 23 June in Brussels, sketching out the priorities of his Presidency that begins on 1 July. In somewhat combative mood, the British prime minister on several occasions proclaimed his European convictions, saying: “I am a passionate pro-European. I always have been. My first vote...

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