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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8321

18 October 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/trade policy
Mr Lamy wants greater qualified majority voting and civil society consultation committee

Brussels, 17/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an address to the Convention workgroup on external Union action (see EUROPE yesterday p 3 on the subject of Javier Solana's contribution to the same workgroup), the European Commissioner for Trade, Pascal Lamy, declared that it was essential that the Convention made greater use of qualified majority voting in trade policy, as well as in other Community policies. He pointed out that an increased number of international negotiations had a commercial...

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