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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9508

25 September 2007
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A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
A Look Behind The News, by Ferdinando Riccardi: Review of allocation of seats in European Parliament: decision has to be taken quickly

Triple challenge. Changing the allocation of seats in the European Parliament presents a triple challenge: a) the total number of MEPs has to be reduced (from 785 to 750), a change that will make some unhappy; b) the EP “holds the nap hand”, since it can speak about the arrangements with a clear majority; the Council will agree with whatever it decides; c) the review will then have to be ratified by national parliaments.

This lets us see just how delicate and complicated the task was of...

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