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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7819

13 October 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) epp/european council of biarrtitz
Poettering places emphasis on qualified majority voting and strengthening of Commission - Recourse to Convention formula for "post-Nice"?

Brussels, 12/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - Hans-Gert Poettering, President of the European Parliament's EPP/ED Group, told the press on Wednesday that he expected decisive impetus for the IGC of the informal European Council of Biarritz, and repeated that the main criteria for a successful institutional reform was the generalisation of qualified majority voting with, as corollary, EP co-decision (we also want co-decision for the Common Agricultural Policy, he recalled). In addition, saying that...

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