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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8301

20 September 2002
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Short account of the European Convention - Myths to be dispelled on the attitude of some governments towards the Commission, and the direction taken by national parliamentarians

Encouraging conversion of opinion but … The converging opinions noted within the Convention on some aspects of the EU's institutional reform point to the possibility of consensus on problems such as the Union's status as a legal entity and simplification of its instruments and procedures, and even to some extent on subsidiarity and the right of own initiative (see same column yesterday). This is encouraging progress but the fundamental choices nonetheless remain open and the amalgamation...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION