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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10061

22 January 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/meps
Council wants speedy IGC without prior Convention

Brussels, 21/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - Member states want to amend the Protocol to the Lisbon Treaty to increase the number of MEPs provisionally from 736 to 754 until the 2014 European elections when the number will fall to 751, but without having to call a Convention which, in the normal procedure, should precede an inter-governmental conference (IGC) to amend the treaty, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy has told EP President Jerzy Buzek by letter. The European Council...

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