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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9448
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/eu reform

Poland, largely isolated, continues to oppose double majority - Merkel insists on “exhaustive” mandate for IGC

Brussels, 18/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - The foreign affairs ministers made minimal progress in negotiations on the future treaty of the EU, at their meeting in Luxembourg on Sunday evening, but the central problem - Poland's refusal to agree to the mechanism of “double majority” for qualified majority voting within the Council of Ministers - remains intact. On Monday, the Polish leaders went so far as to stress their firm intention of opposing any compromise which would leave double...

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