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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8487
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention/luxembourg

20/06/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview with Liberation, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker states that, with the draft Constitution that provides for each Council formation to elect its president for variable durations, "everything will become more illegible and unforeseeable". Also, although he does not challenge the idea of a stable president for the European Council, he wonders just what the impact of such an innovation would be. As for reducing the size of the Commission, that he now accepts, he comments: "The small States knew how to take the corner when they had to". The most important thing for him is the extension of qualified majority, mainly for CFSP ("with this Constitution, the situation that we have known during the war in Iraq will happen again in an identical manner"). For taxation, he says it would be necessary to look closely at the idea of a super-qualified majority to prevent blocking by a single country.

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