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One Hat for Two Heads: A Complex Simplification Process
Jean-Claude Juncker has renewed the idea of merging the positions of President of the Commission and that of the European Council. A proposal which may seem politically attractive but which raises delicate institutional issues.
| 26/09/2017
Jean-Claude Juncker has renewed the idea of merging the positions of President of the Commission and that of the European Council. Alain Dauvergne, Advisor at the Jacques Delors Institute, analyses this perspective which may seem politically attractive but which raises delicate institutional issues.
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