- Title: ITALY: EUROPEAN LEADERS TO TACKLE ISSUE OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON SECOND DAY OF SUMMIT
- Date: 22nd June 1996
- Summary: FLORENCE, ITALY (JUNE 22, 1996) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN: BRITISH PRIME MINISTER JOHN MAJOR ARRIVING 0.19 2. SCU: MAJOR SPEAKING ABOUT LIFTING OF BEEF BAN (ENGLISH) 0.39 3. GV: JOURNALISTS/ EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JACQUES SANTER ARRIVING 0.51 4. MV/GV: ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER ROMANO PRODI ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 1.03 5. GV/PAN: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S HIGH REPRESENTATIVE TO BOSNIA, CARL BILDT 1.13 6. GV/PAN: GERMAN CHANCELLOR HELMUT KOHL AND GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER KLAUS KINKEL 1.33 7. GV/PAN: FRENCH PRESIDENT JACQUES CHIRAC AND FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER HERVE DE CHARETTE ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 1.41 8. GV/LV: GROUP PHOTOGRAPH TAKING PLACE (5 SHOTS) 2.15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT SEQUENCE 2: MAJOR: "THIS WASN'T JUST A QUESTION OF AGREEMENT OR DISAGREEMENT, THIS WAS A QUESTION WHERE WE HAD TRIED FOR SOME WEEKS TO MAKE PROGRESS, WHERE ONE NATION STATE WAS FACING A PARTICULAR PROBLEM, AND DID NOT TO ME SEEM TO BE GETTING THE COOPERATION FROM OUR PARTNERS THAT WE DESERVED. I HOPE NO SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ARISE AGAIN." -------------------------------------------------------------------- Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: FLORENCE, ITALY
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- Country: Italy
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- Story Text: INTRO: With a deal done to defuse Britain's beef crisis, European Union leaders on Saturday sat down to finalise a statement which they hope will send a signal of their intent to tackle unemployment across Europe.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- After clearing the decks of the rift over mad cow disease, differences on the best way to respond to a tide of the 18 million jobless in Europe, on Saturday (June 22) looked set to dominate the last day of a summit of European leaders in Florence.
On Friday, the leaders reached a compromise reconciling Britain's demand for a step-by-step end to a worldwide ban on its beef exports with other European Union (EU) states' insistence on strict public health guarantees.
British Prime Minister John Major claimed victory for his tactics of systematically obstructing EU business, which had infuriated London's partners.
Speaking on arrival at the summit meeting on Saturday, Major said these had been special circumstances and he may possibly not use these tactics again.
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