Word: kemppinen
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...them." Virulent opposition to the plan prompted a classic Brussels response: a marathon negotiating session at which the most controversial proposals were either removed or diluted. Gone was the European Congress, as well as the suggestion for a presidential secretariat that critics feared would have rivaled the Commission. Reijo Kemppinen, a spokesman for the Commission, concluded that the result was not quite a "working document" but a "useful working basis." But resentment toward Giscard's high-handed tactics is still rife. "We spent months doing nothing but talking about trivial matters," says Johannes Voggenhuber, an Austrian Member of the European...
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