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"With the experience of recent history behind them, hegemony by large states was something that Europe's founding fathers were determined to avoid" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)
Power is slipping from the commission to the council
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by Peter Sain ley Berry, Brussels,
In one of these pieces, a year or so ago, I wrote that it seemed to me we were watching an accelerating shift of power away from the European Commission and towards the European Council and that this unscripted change would prove as significant for the future development of Europe as anything in any constitutional treaty.
The function of the Commission, headed by an appointed college of commissioners, is to propose initiatives designed to forward the construction of Europe, the developm...
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"With the experience of recent history behind them, hegemony by large states was something that Europe's founding fathers were determined to avoid" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)
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