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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7704

26 April 2000
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Intergovernmental Conference on institutional reform is sick because it is not moving forward, and especially because a certain mistrust has crept in between large and small countries

Portuguese Presidency puts the cat among the pigeons. The Intergovernmental Conference is sick. Not so much because progress is slow; the real sickness lies elsewhere. The slow pace of negotiations is not dramatic in itself; if the political will is there, the Heads of Government could themselves quite quickly decide on the two essential sticking points that today separate Member States: the number of the member of the future European Commission, weighting of votes in Council. But the...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENTS