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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7779

17 August 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 10 / 12
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/insitutional reform
Ruehe in favour of a Commission with a ceiling of 20 members

Berlin, 16/08/2000 (Agence Europe) - Volker Ruehe, Deputy-leader of the CDU/CSU Group in the Bundestag responsible for foreign policy (role that Karl Lamers previously played), has spoken out in the debate on the institutional reform of the European Union by telling the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" that, in an enlarged Europe, he was in favour of setting a ceiling of 20 members for the European Commission. The former Geman defence minister told "FAZ" of Saturday 12 August that equality...