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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7631

12 January 2000
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Institutional reform as now foreseen would mean the End of the European Commission as a driving force behind Community construction - Reservation and reticence on the part of some countries will not block security and defence Europe

The Commission that is being prepared for us. All we have to do is give one example, that of the European Commission, to show to what extent institutional reform as foreseen by the conclusions of the Helsinki Summit would be unable to resolve any of the real problems raised today in Europe. According to well-known guidelines, reform would simply consist of providing for the Commission to be composed of one member for each Member State nationality, without any overall reflection or decision...

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