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Representative in the IGC preparatory group, Frans van Daele, stresses the key importance of extending majority voting and raises the issue of «checks and balances» between EU institutions - German plan for a "large scale" IGC in 2004: a succesSful conclusion of the Nice process is the first priority, claim meps.

Brussels, 27/06/2000 (Agence Europe) - The debate the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs had, on Monday afternoon, with the Belgian Permanent Representative Frans van Daele, (a member of Preparatory Group for the Inter-governmental Conference's on EU institutional reforms, gave the MEPs an opportunity to consider the idea those close to Chancellor Schröder floated last week. The plan is that once the Nice Treaty has been ratified, steps should be taken organise a new,...