LIIKANEN SPEECH
April 1st, 2002
KEITH NUTHALLASSISITANCE from the European Union to boost the development of an efficient and privately owned forestry sector in the eastern European countries wanting to become Member States is crucial, EU enterprise Commissioner Erkki Liikanen has claimed.In a speech to the European Economic and Social Committee, he said that the move from 100 per cent state ownership of forests in these former communist countries had created a number of problems that needed to be addressed. These, he said, had included difficulties regarding the registration of claims, ...
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