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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8599

5 December 2003
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/constitution

04/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - British Labour member Richard Corbett, MEP, suggests that the current deadlock between those in favour of double majority in Council and those in favour of the Nice solution could be broken. The idea is to take inspiration from the "Ioannina compromise", after the town in northern Greece where Foreign Ministers had tried, in March 1994, to settle the problem of the threshold of votes needed for qualified majority in Council after accession by Austria, Finland and...

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