Brussels, 17/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - In a letter to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, MEP Andrew Duff, who had headed the Liberal component at the European Convention, called upon the Irish Presidency to drop from the draft Constitution all exact figures on the size of the Commission and the European Parliament.
Speaking "as something of a constitutional purist", he said, "I do not take the view that it is necessary to specify the number of members of either body". "The important thing is to...