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Brandt and Pompidou talk money

By John Spencer

Workers Press no. 978, 23 January 1973 · scan page 3

Topics: France, Italy and Germany

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THE INTERNATIONAL monetary crisis, Common Market questions and relations with the Soviet Union were high on the agenda at the meeting in Paris yesterday of Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany and President Pompidou.

The summit marked the 10th said. anniversary of the friendship treaty between the two countries signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Since then trade between the two countries has increased fourfold, but there have been serious differences on rela- olony tions with the US and Britain's entry to the Common Market.

Of immediate concern also is the question of European monetary policy on which the French government has insisted on fixed parities and closer integration.

membership.

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