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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-18-04 10:40 PM
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EU Big Three defend summit
Britain, France and Germany insisted that they were acting in the best interests of Europe as they hit back at criticism of their three-way summit on Wednesday.

The leaders of the European Union's three biggest countries called for the appointment of a high-level commissioner tasked with pushing through economic reforms to make the bloc the world's most competitive region by 2010.

Other suggestions included ways to encourage innovation, stimulate economic growth, spur training and research, reform labour markets and overhaul their creaking social systems.

"There are real changes we have to make in order to equip our citizens for this world of change," British Prime Minister Tony Blair told a joint press conference in Berlin, the summit venue.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/388B8A09-5AE0-40C8-B38C-3BA35D6E5E01.htm
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