Parliament Of The Six Meets Today
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) STRASBOURG, October 19.
The question of extended powers for the six-nation European Parliament is expected to highlight the debates in its session opening in Strasbourg today.
Today the Parliament will discuss the European Common Market’s relations with Latin America and world trade problems. Then the Parliamentarians of the six Common Market countries will debate reports on: 1. "Democratising” the community by means of a long deadlocked project for a directly-elected European Parliament with a greater measure of control than the present assembly of national parliamentary delegations. France opposes
this. 2. The agreed, but delayed, merger of the three European entities: the Common Market, the coal-and-steel pool, and Euratom.
This reform is blocked by a controversy over a seat for the unified executive. Observers think last week’s dramatic developments—the removal of Mr Khrushchev from the Soviet leadership and China’s first nuclear test —are likely to revive federalist trends in the Parliament and give it a sense of urgency in trying to end the “goslow” in Europe’s unification.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 17
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