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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8564

16 October 2003
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THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution
Frits Bolkestein does not want a permanent European Council President or Commissioners without voting rights

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...

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