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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8159

27 February 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/future of europe
Paavo Lipponen fears Convention will minimise role of "small countries" and European Commission - Plea for Community Method

Helsinki, 26/02/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with the Finnish Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen has expressed concern about the possible outcome of the Convention on the future of Europe, noting that "There are efforts to change the system in a direction where there would be a kind of directorate, and the Commission and small countries would be pushed out of the way". Mr Lipponen fears that "some kind of model, which has been drafted somewhere -...

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