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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8708

18 May 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/igc
Progress on Council Presidency - Problems with financial programming - No unanimity of "Dublin acquis"

Brussels, 17/05/2004 (Agence Europe) - The main progress made at the end of the first morning of the Intergovernmental Conference, in Brussels on Monday, will doubtless be the broad consensus on the formula combining bi-annual rotation and collegiality for the Presidency of the Council configurations. Much simpler than the system of Presidency teams rotating at the head of each configuration, the new system would keep six-monthly rotations, allowing one Member State to preside all...

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