AFP: EU leaders agree on watered down future 'reflection group'
EU leaders agree on watered down future 'reflection group'
EU leaders agreed Friday to set up a "reflection group" to consider Europe's long-term future, but watered down a French demand that the committee determine how far the bloc should expand. The leaders meeting at a summit in Brussels named former Spanish prime minister Felipe Gonzalez to lead the review, said a spokesman for Portugal, which holds the EU's rotating presidency until the end of the month. He will be aided by former Latvian president Vaira Vike-Freiberga and Jorma Ollila, head of Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia. "We had many reservations towards the original idea," Czech European affairs minister Aleksandr Vondra told reporters after EU heads of state and government discussed the proposal.
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