Brussels, 21/06/2006 (Agence Europe) -Commissioner Franco Frattini has been trying to convince the Dutch MEPs of the merits of the Commission's proposal to transfer a substantial proportion of third-pillar decisions into the Community arena, via a so-called "passerelle cause".
Speaking before the upper chamber of the Parliament in The Hague, the Commissioner repudiated any suggestion that this proposal is the EU's attempt to get the Constitutional Treaty in "through the backdoor". "Let me...