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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7808

28 September 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutional reform
Aznar insists on "adequate" re-weighting of votes - setting dates for enlargement: a "disaster"

Paris, 27/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - In a speech he made (in French) at the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Spanish Prime Minister José Maria Aznar reaffirmed the priority Spain gave, in ongoing negotiations on the review of the EU Treaty, to a re-weighting of votes in Council that provided Spain with "a weight in accordance with its demographic size". Calling for "the balances that have deteriorated in successive enlargements to be reestablished", Aznar said he was...

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