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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8585
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc

14/11/2003 (Agence Europe) - On Friday in Brussels, Silvio Berlusconi, together with his Benelux counterparts - Guy Verhofstadt, Jan-Peter Balkenende and Jean-Claude Juncker, brought up the subject of the IGC, after raising the matter in Rome with his counterparts from Austrian and Finland, Wolfgang Schüssel and Matti Vanhanen. In Warsaw, Joschka Fischer declared that they would reach a compromise on double majority at the Council, noting, "We can discuss, with pertinence, the 60% threshold", as well as other solutions so that "Poland is not subject to discrimination". Presidents and Vice Presidents of the Convention, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Jean-Luc Dehaene and Giuliano Amato published a "point of view" in the newspapers of several EU countries, which in "Le Monde" was entitled "The Europe of tomorrow: the False Quarrel between the "Small" and the "Large" Countries".

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