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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7844

20 November 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutional reform
Lipponen defines ambitions for Nice and sketches out ambitions for after Nice

Bruges, 17/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - At the end of last week, Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, in a speech given at the College of Europe in Bruges, had reaffirmed that one Commissioner per Member State is the "only feasible solution at this stage of EU development". In his view, a "smaller Commission without a German or French Commissioner would in fact weaken the Commission" but one should recognise that, for a "far larger Commission than now, we must seek innovative alternatives"....

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