Brussels, 15/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published on Saturday by Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, Commissioner Frits Bolkestein said that the idea of a permanent President of the European Council "absolutely must be abandoned". "This President would become a new European institution, as well as the Commission and the Council. The President would have his or her own building, and staff, and it would turn into a new bureaucratic complex", he said, stressing also the risks of "the divisions which could arise between the President of the Commission and this Council President". "A Commissioner without a vote is a castrato. A larger Commission is not necessarily more efficient, it depends on its President and its Commissioners", he also noted.