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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8252

11 July 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
Commissioner Barnier against electing President of Council for five years, as proposed by France, United Kingdom and Spain

Brussels, 10/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday, in a statement to a group of journalists, Commissioner Michel Barnier described the Blair/Chirac/Aznar idea of a President elected for 5 years as going against the "Community Method". He also stressed that it was necessary to think of the way a President elected with powers of initiative could work, who would find himself progressively surrounded by a Cabinet and collaborators and with Member States attempting to locate themselves where the...

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