Cork, 25/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - Why do we need the Treaty of Nice? (…) The main aim of Nice is to make us capable of welcoming, within a few years, all the twelve countries that are presently negotiating their accession to the EU, and to allow the institutions of the Union with 15 Member States to continue to function effectively in an enlarged Union, which could cover 27 countries. This is what was said on Friday, in a speech made at University College Cork, before a mainly Irish...