:---------- Forwarded message ---------- :Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 23:50:06 +0200 :From: Olivier Hoedeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) :Subject: Chirac and Jospin: conditions for signing MAI : :--- forwarded message --- : :(EU) EU/FRANCE/MAI: MR CHIRAC AND MR JOSPIN CONFIRM THEIR RESERVATIONS : Paris, 07/08/1998 (Agence Europe) - In two letters sent to the French :Communist Deputy Jean-Claude Lefort, the content of which is revealed in :the daily L'Humanité, President Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin :confirm French reservations about the project of a Multilateral Agreement :on Investment. Jacques Chirac thus explains that the MAI will not be :definitively concluded, from the European Union's point of view, until all :the EU Member States are willing to do so in so far as the subjects covered :come under both national competence and joint competence. Mr Jospin, for :his part, stresses that "France will not sign the MAI if the cultural :exception is challenged, if competition through the lowering of social :standards and environmental protection standards is tolerated (...) and if :the laws of extra-territorial range are made legitimate". : : :________________________ : :Helle Hagenau :TEAM :LEO 2F162 :B-1047 Brussels : :Tel. +32.2.284 4579 :Fax +32.2.284 9144 :E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : : : : :-- :For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and :links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/ : -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/