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Berlusconi angry at "Big 3" summit

(19 Feb 2004) 1. Various, officials outside venue at Nassioutzik Estate, near Athens Airport 2. European Peoples'''' Party sign 3. Arrival of Portuguese Prime Minister, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso 4. Sign "European Peoples'''' Party" 5. Arrival of Berlusconi, being greeted by the Greek leader of the New Democracy Party, Kostas Karamanlis 6. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister "I don''''t believe that there has to be a response. Our position is that we are for an EU of 25 members and we believe that Europe has to go forward with 25 countries, that concur in its decisions. Today there is a voting system that requires either unanimity, or majority votes, according to the votes assigned in Nice. The fact that some countries might think - that they denied themselves - to some activity that has little to do with the management of a Europe of 25 countries, and that could be defined as a directorate, is something that is outside the philosophy of an enlarging Europe. Therefore I don''''t think that these meetings could bring anything aside from defining the relationship among these countries, which is completely legitimate. If from these meetings, decisions would come out, well I think the leaders of these countries must know that the response would be prejudicially a no." 7. Panning shot, round table meeting 8. Berlusconi and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar applauding 9. Mid-shot Karamanlis and Dutch prime minister, Jan Peter Balkenende 10. Mid shot, meeting 11. Exterior of venue 12. Media 13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister "We have reviewed the Berlin summit. Everyone agreed that Europe is a Europe of 25, and one cannot accept the suggestion which comes from a summit, like this one in Berlin, and that we have to move forward together, and this was the view shared by everyone" 13. Berlusconi''''s car driving away STORYLINE: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday criticised a summit held by the leaders of France, Germany and Britain, saying EU countries left out will find their proposals to reinvigorate Europe''''s economy hard to accept. Berlusconi, attending a one-day meeting of European conservatives, said the Berlin summit "was an error". On Wednesday, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair met in Berlin and called for a fresh drive to cut bureaucracy in the EU, promote new technologies and avert a crisis in social programs. They also backed a stronger role for the EU''''s executive commission in guiding economic reforms for the bloc that is expanding to 25 countries from 15 in May. Other EU nations, notably Italy and Spain, expressed concern that the summit was an effort by the three countries to assume control of the bloc''''s future. Other leaders at the Athens meeting of the European People''''s Party, which represents conservative groupings in Europe, did not comment on the summit. The conservatives met ahead of the EU summit on March 25 and the main item on their agenda was the intergovernmental conference trying to draft the EU''''s constitution. It was organised in Athens in a show of support for Greek conservative opposition leader Kostas Karamanlis before March 7 general elections. Five prime ministers attended, including Spain''''s Jose Maria Aznar, Portugal''''s Jose Manuel Durao Barroso, The Netherlands'''' Jan Peter Balkenende, Malta''''s Eddie Fenech Adami, and Slovenia''''s Anton Rop. Karamanlis'''' party is ahead of the governing Socialist party in opinion polls. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...