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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8734
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/constitution/commission

According to former European Commissioner Karel Van Miert, it will take two decades to "digest enlargement and put the house in order" - Scepticism about a Commission with vice-presidents to chair Commissioner groups - Turkey's membership: problem of public opinion

Brussels, 24/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The current political climate in Europe is "frankly bad". Member States are "deeply divided" over issues as important as the position to be adopted vis-à-vis the United States, and enlargement does not make things any simpler. Adoption of the Constitution, however, as long as it is ratified, is a positive thing on the whole although the text does not go as far as some would have liked, mainly on social matters. This was what the former European...

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