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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8599
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution

Joschka Fischer insists on double majority at Council

Brussels, 04/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published in the Financial Times on Thursday, the German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Joschka Fischer again insisted on the need for the IGC to approve the Convention's proposal to introduce a double-majority system of voting at the Council for countries and populations. In reply to those (especially Spain and Poland) who are seeking to keep the Nice provisions, he declared that the Treaty of Nice is "a bad treaty, an insufficient treaty...

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