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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8336

8 November 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) euconvention
Giscard d'Estaing insists on abolition of half-yearly presidency rotation - Cox has doubts on idea of Commission being able to be overthrown by European Council

Brussels, 07/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - At the end of his meeting on Wednesday with the European Commission (see yesterday's EUROPE p.4), the president of the European Convention Valery Giscard d'Estaing told the press that he found the Community method valid, and, asked about reservations expressed within the Commission on a long-term president of the European Council, he repeated that the half-yearly rotation of the presidency had to cease, and that small Member States should not fear that...

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