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Yves Leterme tendered his resignation last Thursday (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Fall of Belgian government will not affect its EU presidency, says commission

by Andrew Willis, Brussels,

The European Commission has said it does not believe the recent fall of the Belgian government will have a negative impact on the country's tenure of the EU's six-month rotating presidency, due to start on 1 July.

"We are confident that Belgium will have a very effective presidency," commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen told a regular news conference in Brussels on Tuesday (27 April).

"We've been working for months with the Belgian authorities to try to make a success of t...

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Yves Leterme tendered his resignation last Thursday (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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