The leaders of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have decided to "give a good example" on being environmentally friendly by sharing a plane to Lisbon in December for the signature of the new EU treaty.
A Dutch spokesman confirmed that the prime ministers of the Benelux states – Belgium's Guy Verhofstadt, the Netherlands' Jan Peter Balkenende and Luxembourg's Jean Claude Juncker – will jointly jet to the Lisbon meeting, which has come under fire for being an unnecessary travelling...
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