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Controversial institutional issues to be tackled

EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg today will attempt to make progress on crucial institutional questions that will shape the division of power in a future EU.

Ministers from the 25 current and future member states will try and agree on the composition of the Commission as well as the exact role of the EU foreign minister – itself, one of the major innovations of the draft Constitution.

Both are thorny issues. The make-up of the Commission, however, is the question which h...

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