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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7714

11 May 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutional reform/austria
Vienna in favour of substantial reforms and insists on maintaining one Commissioner per country and weighting of votes, which does not weaken small countries

Brussels, 10/05/2000 (Agence Europe) - As we have already indicated (see EUROPE of 5 May, p.3), Austria, in the intergovernmental conference on EU institutional reform, moved in favour of an extension of qualified majority voting in the Council, with some exceptions. In the document on "positions of principal" presented at the IGC, Austria asserts that it will, on this issue, be "faithful to the favourable attitude towards integration that it adopted during the last intergovernmental...

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