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EU wants hearing with Wolfowitz
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BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union (news - web sites) wants an opportunity to hear US nominee for World Bank (news - web sites) chief Paul Wolfowitz to quiz him on his views of how he would run the key development institution, EU ministers said.

EU finance ministers discussed Wolfowitz's controversial nomination by US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) over dinner at the start of a summit of the 25-member bloc's leaders Brussels.

Austria's Karl-Heinz Grasser, asked if Wolfowitz could present his views to the next meeting of EU finance ministers scheduled for April 11-12, said that would be too late.

"We need to hear from him on a European level before then. We need to know his basic position on the (UN) millennium development goals, and his view of how he would lead the World Bank," he said after the dinner.

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