... the Council and the extension of qualified-majority voting related to the co-decision procedure, which I will look at later in my report (despite significant progress made in the last area). It was therefore clear from the start that the priority of the new Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), launched on 14 February 2000, would be to deal with the issue of the ... ...

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