Brussels, 21/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - Thursday early evening, the Permanent Representatives Committee was still trying to resolve the main difficulty blocking the finalisation of the text of the Nice Treaty - the contradiction between the percentage of votes to which, as of 2005, should correspond the qualified majority in the Council (73.4% of the votes) and the figure of the blocking minority (91 votes). Some Member States insist on a immediate solution, according to others they could wait to the approach of the deadline in 2005 (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.6). Spain insisting on maintaining, in an enlarged Union, the blocking minority of 91 votes, while most of the "small" countries, but also some "large", feel that the blocking minority should be corrected upwards, in order to make it correspond with the qualified majority in the provisional text of the Treaty.