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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8722

10 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/commission
Vitorino, Lamy and Patten "best candidates" for Presidency, Cohn-Bendit says

Brussels, 09/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The co-president of the Greens/EFA Group at the outgoing EP, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, was highly critical of the idea that the next European Commission President should necessarily be a former or current Head of Government. "I am dead set against this as it would strengthen intergovernmentalism when Europe needs a Commission that is a counter-weight to intergovernmentalism", Mr Cohn-Bendit told the press on Wednesday. He recalled that Jacques Delors had not...

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