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Article: EUROPEAN CONVENTION: BROAD SUPPORT FOR ELECTED COMMISSION PRESIDENT.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- January 25, 2003
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Need for an effective Commission.
The Convention also considered the future of the Commission with the General Secretariat's document highlighting problems regarding the appointment of its President and members. The number of Commissioners, currently set at 20, has grown steadily, some would argue at the expense of its efficiency. The Nice Treaty, which was the result of the divisions among Member States, failed to offer any genuinely novel solutions: at best it limits the number of Commissioners to one per country (compared with two at present for the large Member States) and provides that in a 27-member Union, certain Member States should forego their ...