... size of the Commission, the weighting of votes in 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 unfinished business of Amsterdam. The two institutions that I have selected to examine are the Parliament and the Commission ... the Amsterdam Treaty had set the maximum at 70...

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