On Wednesday 22 February, the European Commissioners held an initial discussion on the White Paper on the future of the European Union, to be presented by the European Commission ahead of the 60th anniversary celebrations of the signature of the Treaty of Rome (see EUROPE 11718, 11716).
This discussion, which took up by far the most time of all of the debates on the agenda items, allowed all the Commissioners to express their views, one participant explained. The Commissioners were asked to...