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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8244

29 June 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/institutions
Peter Hain sets out British ideas on European president, a presidential team and the role of Commission and parliaments

London, 28/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - British Minister for Europe Peter Hain said in an address to the Law Society on 25 June that, following the reforms of the EU Council agreed to in Seville, "the next stage must be to find alternatives to the stop-start effect of the six-monthly rotation between Member states holding the Council Presidency." This system has prevented the development of a strategic agenda and a "grown-up relationship with the Commission and Parliament", he considers,...

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