"Europe comes together around a common vision of defence", Franco Frattini is pleased to state, noting several other moves forward mainly on institutional issues - Question of double majority continues to divide Member States and can only be settled at summit - Before European Council, EPP summit in Paris on 4 December (with Berlusconi and Aznar) and ministerial conclave on 8 December in Brussels - Some ministers and Commissioners Barnier and Vitorino express concern, just two weeks from final effort

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