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"Nobody will watch these kind of debates unless it gets really exciting," the Dutch minister said (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

First EU ministers' webcast proves tedious

by Mark Beunderman, Brussels,

Endless jargon translated by monotonous interpreters characterised most of Tuesday's first ever web-streamed EU ministers' meetings.

The meeting on Tuesday (11 July) was the the first to be broadcast live on the internet, after EU leaders last month decided to inject more transparency in the meetings of the EU council - the member states' decision-making body.

But few of those citizens taking a peek into minister's discuss...

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"Nobody will watch these kind of debates unless it gets really exciting," the Dutch minister said (Photo: The Council of the European Union)

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