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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9510
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/seats

Mr Duff warns against “haggling” at Lisbon Summit

Brussels, 26/09/2007 (Agence Europe) - The UK Liberal Andrew Duff, one of the three MEPs representing the EP at the intergovernmental conference (IGC) on the new treaty of the EU, hopes that the issue of the division of seats of the members of the European Parliament on the basis of nationality will not arise at the informal Lisbon summit (18-19 October). “We are not going to start haggling over seats at four o'clock in the morning at Lisbon” as was the case in Nice, he said. This issue...

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