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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9496

7 September 2007
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/seats/treaty
Seat distribution at European Parliament risks further complicating IGC conclusion

Brussels, 06/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - The delicate question of allocating seats at the European Parliament after the 2009 European elections risks being added to the other obstacles EU leaders will have to overcome if they want to adopt the new EU treaty as planned, on 19 October in Lisbon, even though the problem is not formally part of the intergovernmental conference (IGC) approved in June. In effect, instead of dealing with it at the IGC, heads of state and government preferred to pass...

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