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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9234

18 July 2006
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Reducing the number of European commissioners, while legally necessary, raises complex and controversial issues

Not urgent yet, but… According to non-official sources, the Finnish Presidency of the Council intends to raise the issue of the composition of the European Commission following the accession of Romania and Bulgaria. This will be a matter of assessing and possibly preparing the application of the Treaty of Nice, according to which when the Union has 27 members, “the number of members of the Commission shall be less than the number of Member States” (article 4 of the protocol on...

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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS
WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT