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Article: EU/RUSSIA: WALLSTRoM SETS OUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN MOSCOW.(European Union, Russian Federation)(Brief Article)
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- European Report
- Article date:
- May 12, 2001
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Making no excuses for her candour, the Commissioner said: "Hard choices have to be made between economic and environmental goals". Dealing effectively with "shared challenges" means recognising that Russian circumstances and priorities "often differ from those in Western Europe", insisted the Commissioner. But she also insisted on the need for top-level political attention to the challenges: "Our co-operation on environment flows directly from the weight given to environment in ... international agreements endorsed at the highest levels of the Russian Federation and the European Union", she opened her remarks by saying. And she returned to the theme at the end of her ...