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>>52278 a canon 50mm F/1.4 is within your budget, it's a really nice lens, small F number giving you a good working environment for low light and a nice bokeh (7 bladed aperture iirc). but you'd be sacrificing on photo distance options...
The Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM costs about 620, and Canon Europe is offering a 150 if you buy them til the end of January, making it effectively 470-ish. It offers you more breadth due to the zoom range. The high f number would mean you'd have more difficulties in low light environments and a not as east to obtain bokeh, though.
It really depends on what you want to shoot as well. I'm talking about personal experience here, but I really enjoyed getting an all around lens as my first lens, so I could just get out there and take photos, close-range or not so close-range, wide landscapes, smaller details, so I'd always go for the latter. If you don't mind lacking the ability of zooming in or out, a 50mm f/1.4 is something that should probably last you a lifetime, since there's not much better than it for low light environments (only 50mm f/1.2 I think).
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