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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8204

3 May 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/commission
British proposals with view to linking national politics to Europe - a Commission President elected through national parliaments in liaison with European elections

London, 02/05/2002 (Agence Europe) - The Foreign Policy Centre is making a series of suggestions aimed at strengthening Europe's legitimacy and democracy in a brochure (published with the British Council in Brussels) by Simon Hix, entitled "Linking National Politics to Europe", within the framework of the project "Next Generation Democracy: Legitimacy in Network Europe". The author recalls that, when James Madison and Alexander Hamilton designed an "indirect" election system for the American...

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