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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8769

24 August 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/barroso commission
Jo Leinen regrets that no Commissioners will have responsibility for monitoring ratification of European Constitution - Broadly positive reaction from Pottering and von Wogau

Brussels, 23/08/2004 (Agence Europe) - "In the new European Commission no member will be directly responsible for the future process of realising the European Constitution" despite the Barroso Commission being expected to "see itself as an engine of the constitutional idea and as a guardian of the achieved compromise. It must not step into the role of a pure bystander", lamented German Social Democrat Jo Leinen in a press release (Leinen is President of the European Parliament's...