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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7850

27 November 2000
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutional reform
Latest meeting of Preparatory Group confirms that there is a move towards re-weighting of votes in Council and deferred ceiling for Commission

Brussels, 27/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - The informal meeting of the IGC Preparatory Group, at Val Duchesse on Friday and Saturday, confirmed that many Member States have difficulties in agreeing to the extension of qualified majority voting in a series of important policies like asylum and immigration (but there, it seems that support could be found in Nice in the form of a declaration), tax, social policy (especially, London and Copenhagen, which have problems, but for different reasons),...

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