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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8159

27 February 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/united kingdom

26/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - British European Affairs Minister Peter Hain said in a speech delivered at the annual conference in Port Talbot: "Yes, the Commission is a bureaucracy. It isn't elected. And that's right, because, like civil servants, they must be independent, acting for the good of everyone in Europe. Politicise them and they couldn't do that. But they are accountable - to the European Parliament directly and to the Council indirectly. And they are eminently sackable - as the...

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