MEP Jean-Louis Bourlanges decried the idea that the IGC posed a threat to institutional reform by continuing along the present road ending in the "birth of a monster". We give the essential passages of his article published in "Le Figaro" on 6 November:
Assuming that the idea of "one Commissioner per Member State" is unshakeable, "access to the Union by the thirteen current candidates would create a situation in which the Commissioners from the States representing 74% of the population...