Brussels, 19/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs continued its hearings of the members of the IGC Preparatory Group with, on Tuesday, the German Secretary of State, Gunter Pleuger. EUROPE will come back, tomorrow, to the speech by German representative of the Vimont Group, who mainly spoke on the subject of the size and the composition of the European Commission. The large States "want a small Commission" and the small States want one Commissioner per State, he said, adding that his impression is that we are "moving towards a large Commission". In response to Luxembourg Socialist Jacques Poos (who, more generally, welcomed the opening by Mr Pleuger, feeling that the IGC "will certainly not fail because of the German attitude"), the German Secretary of State felt that the setting in place of a "large" Commission, with its own hierarchy, would pose practically as many political problems as a "small" Commission as it will at any rate be necessary to take difficult decisions, when one has, for example, to choose the vice-presidents and the junior Commissioners or those without portfolio. According to Mr Pleuger, moreover, in a "large machine" such as the European Commission, the voice of the Member States can make itself heard in many ways (for example, through the directors general). Also, he believes, in a "small" Commission, the Commissioners would, even more than at present, be "forced" not to behave like representatives of the Member States.