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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8464

17 May 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
Convention Members approve creation of an EU Foreign Minister and strengthened defence cooperation - in support of better European Parliament involvement - Isolated, the United Kingdom seeks to resist extension to qualified majority

Brussels, 16/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Friday morning, the European Convention chaired by Jean-Luc Dehaene tackled aspects linked to the European Union's common foreign and security policy. The debate showed broad consensus in favour of the Praesidium's proposals, which may nonetheless still be improved.

Italian MEP Lamberto Dini insisted on the need to extend qualified majority vote (otherwise, he said, there will never be a common foreign and security policy) and to speak with a single...

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