THE DAY IN POLITICS

(EU) EU/INSTITUTIONAL REFORM: After three days of negotiations, the "Treaty of Nice" is born - for Jacques Chirac, Nice was "a great summit" - Lionel Jospin is "happy for Europe", but would have liked more ambition, especially over qualified majority voting, like Romano Prodi, who finds the re-weighting of votes finally agreed to difficult to explain

Nice, 11/12/2000 (Agence Europe) - This conference was long and arduous, but "I said you'll see, this summit will remain in the history of Europe as a great summit by the scale and complexity of the problems solved", said President Chirac at 5.00 am on Monday 11 December, at his press conference at the end of the Summit of Nice that, half an hour before, had ended negotiations on the EU's institutional reform. The Treaty of Nice is thus born, under the reservation of the texts having the...