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Article: Experts signal big EU reforms
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1994
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THE European Union needs radical reform to make it more
democratic and effective, according to a report by senior advisers
to Jacques Delors and Helmut Kohl.
The report released yesterday in Bonn sets out proposals for
developing the EU in the direction of a federal state when
governments meet in 1996 to revise the Maastricht treaty. It was
prepared by a structural commission which included Jerome Vignon
and Joachim Bitterlich, advisers respectively to the President of
the European Commission and the German Chancellor.
The recommendations include giving the European Parliament
parallel powers to those of national representatives in the EU's
Council of Ministers, so as to make decision-making ...