Under new plans sent to EU member states on Thursday evening (13 May), the Irish EU Presidency is looking to clinch a deal on the tricky Commission composition question by suggesting it be reduced to 18 members after 2014.
This solution, which the Presidency is hoping will be given the all-clear by governments, would mean that a country would lose their right to have a commission for one out of every three terms.
However, Dublin has shied away from any other major institutional pr...
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