8/11: Pat Cox meeting in Rome with George Parker, Head of the "Financial Times" Bureau in Brussels: nature of EU-Turkey talks
8/11 : Talks with Pier Ferdinand Casini, Italian politican : dialogue with Russia. Enlargement to the East. Turkish accession negotiations - delicate and explosive. Priority that new Constitution be rooted in democratic accountability
8/11: Cox meeting with Premier Berlusconi: defence and stability pact. Italy’s public debt. Level of pensions. Turkish accession negotiations - cultural diversity
12/11: Meeting between David Harley and Julian Priestley, Secretary-General of the European Parliament
14/11 Meeting between Cox and Dana Spinant, journalist at the "European Voice": challenges and priorities for EP in 2003
14/11: Cox meets José Ortundo, Basque Nationalist Party: ETA causes death and hardship . Ortundo proposes a peace conference in Strasbourg and wants the support of Cox.
14/11: Cox on European Company's Statute
20/11: Cox discusses the Convention with Joe Weiler, European constitutional lawyer and academic
24/11: Zimbabwe: proposal by the EU to ban the Zimbabwe delegation led by President Mugabe from attending the forthcoming meeting of the EU-ACP Assembly.
25/11: Cox meets Polish President Kwasniewski: EU and foreign policy. Schroeder backs strengthening Commission and EP. Kwasniewski talks of need of European leaders to show some vision, not just discuss money
4/12: Debate in Polish Parliament on enlargement
25/11: Meeting with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
27/11: Cox in Paris: negative comments made by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (VGD) on Turkey’s negotiations to accede to EU
27/11: Meeting between Cox and Jean Louis Debré, President of the Assemblée Nationale
27/11: Meeting with French PM Jean-Pierre Raffarin: separate issues of Turkey and enlargement and show of support to Erdogan even if VGD’s opinion is shared by the majority of French voters. Cox appreciates French position on Iraq which is in line with UN
27/11: Cox meeting with Erdogan, leader of the AKP party in Turkey: on Erdogan’s visits to EU member countries seeking support – President Jacques Chirac very supportive. Cox urges prudence.

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