NO PROGRESS IN COUNCIL ON VOTING SYSTEM AND STATUTE FOR MEPs.

Contrary to the expectations of the Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives to the EU (COREPER), European Union Foreign Ministers gathered for the General Affairs Council on December 6, failed to make significant progress on a uniform voting procedure for European Parliament elections. Ministers failed to resolve the most controversial points - a ban on holding more than one office at the same time and the organisation of elections in Gibraltar. Even the issue...