August 25, 2003

Swedish foreign minister distrusts Berlusconi

The current Italian EU presidency lacks the qualification to conclude an Intergovernmental Conference on the future of Europe, according to Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.

Speaking to Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, she said that an EU presidency has an important role to play in uniting the member states.

"I think Ireland has a better basis to do so", Ms Lindh said.

Ireland will take over the EU presidency from Italy on 1 January, 2004.

An Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) to tie up the loose ends of the European Constitutional Treaty is scheduled to start in October and the Italian EU presidency has requested member states to indicate their positions at the beginning of September.

Posted by David Weman at August 25, 2003 11:32 PM | TrackBack
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berlusconi is just fullfilling the job given to him by mr bush: ruin EU as much as possible

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