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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8464

17 May 2003
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS /
Convention finally opens real institutional debate but time is short and worst case scenario is still possible

Questions by Ben Fayot. I now regret that the real debate at the Convention on institutional reform has begun too late. For many months, the contending parties confronted each other on irreconcilable positions: small countries against large countries, Community method against the intergovernmental method, long term full time President of Europe or sixth monthly rotation, a Commissioner per country as opposed to a reduced Commission etc. And now that time is short, a multitude of compromise...

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