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Under present rules the total number of deputies would fall to 736 in 2009 (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

Tough debate on MEP seats kicks off

At their first meeting after the summer recess, European lawmakers have kicked off a highly political debate about how seats for MEPs should be distributed between 27 EU states – something closely intertwined with other institutional reforms set out in the EU's proposed new treaty.

On Monday (3 September), French conservative Alain Lamassoure and Romanian socialist Adrian Severin presented to the European parliament's constitutional affairs committee their report on the future compositi...

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Under present rules the total number of deputies would fall to 736 in 2009 (Photo: Austrian EU Presidency)

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