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Once they get a little sleep, Europe's leaders may realize that the agreement that capped their marathon summit in Nice may actually make the European Union even more unwieldy than it already is. Negotiators from E.U. member states agreed on a series of compromises early Monday in an 18-hour negotiating session following four days of talks. Member states clashed bitterly over how power will be apportioned in the Union, now that it plans to increase its membership from 15 to 28 states...
...members, creating an automatic veto power for any dissenter. That principle has been abolished in some 39 areas of decision-making, but it persists in many key areas such as taxation and social policy. And, of course, even in areas where it has been replaced by majority vote, the summit agreed on the principle of a "qualified majority" that requires 71 percent of the vote to pass any measure...
...that have been waiting on the doorstep are thrilled - their European "citizenship" will be granted on an equal footing with current members (Poland, for example, managed to win agreement that it would have the same number of votes as Spain, based on the equivalence in population size), and the summit also indicated that the door will be open to some of them as early as 2003. Among the current member states, some of the smaller nations were happy at holding back the designs on greater power of some of the larger ones, while others were concerned about expanding the Union...
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Daschle is proposing far more bipartisanship than Lott will ever swallow. The Democratic leader will begin his summit with Lott by demanding that committee membership be split evenly--if that turns out to be the case in the full Senate--and that Democratic vice chairmen serve alongside Republican chairmen. Lott has already ruled that out, and even Democratic Senators say privately they wouldn't be charitable if the tables were turned. The best Daschle will probably get is a one-vote Republican majority on committees instead of the current two, and more influence over legislation that gets to the floor...