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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8351

30 November 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/enlargement
Request to hold EP elections in May 2004

Brussels, 29/11/2002 (Agence Europe) - Giorgio Napolitano, Chair of the EP's Committee on Constitutional Affairs, proposes holding the European elections, scheduled for June 2004 in May, instead, and that the European Commission also end its mandate in April 2004. This would settle the problem of the entry of ten new members on 1 May 2004 (for the difficulties of timing, see yesterday's EUROPE p,4), avoiding creating a category of EP members participating in one session alone (in May) and...

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