This would risk new divisions between western and eastern Europe

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This would risk new divisions between western and eastern Europe. So this IGC is really about the EU's meeting an historic responsibility to eastern Europe.Will the British beef crisis come up?Quite likely, but like agricultural policies in general, it is not formally on the menu. However, to spell out why the Government supports decision- making through unanimous votes and opposes more majority voting, John Major may cite the way the EU overruled British objections and banned British beef. If EU governments fail to settle the main questions of institutional reform, there is every chance that the admission of former Communist countries including the Baltic states, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia will be delayed, perhaps indefinitely. The conference will also consider how to develop the EU's common foreign and security policy.

Some states, notably the Nordic countries, want the treaty amended to cover employment and environmental issues.So it's tidying up the Maastricht treaty then?No, there is much more at stake than that. Fifteen or 20 years from now, the EU could have as many as 27 members.Institutions such as the Commission, the EU's executive arm, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers must be reformed to cope with representatives from all these new states, otherwise they will get hopelessly bogged down. At the end of protracted litigation which went as far as the House of Lords, he was fined pounds 5,000 for contempt of court under section 10 of the 1981 Contempt of Court Act.The section allows judges to order disclosure where this is necessary for reasons of national security, the prevention of crime or disorder or - the basis of Mr Goodwin's punishment - "in the interests of justice".The European judges ruled that this wording was too wide, breaching the free speech guarantee in Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Amendments to the Maastricht treaty will come into force after they are ratified in member-states by parliaments or by referendums.What is its aim?It is to make EU institutions and working procedures more efficient so that, early in the next century, the EU can incorporate new members ranging from Cyprus and Malta to the emerging democracies of central and eastern Europe.

There will be scores of them on specific issues over the next 12 to 18 months. EU foreign ministers will have negotiating sessions once a month; their representatives will meet every week. Senior MoD officials said the police worked as part of society, whereas the Army was more separate.. Bell-bottoms saved The Royal Navy's bell-bottomed trousers have been reprieved and for the first time the kilt is to be officially recognised - but not paid for - by the Navy Board as part of the uniform review unveiled yesterday.. What is the Inter-Governmental Conference? It is a set of negotiations among the European Union's 15 member-states on reforming EU institutions and revising the 1991 Maastricht treaty It opens in Turin tomorrow It is not just a single meeting. "My approach is that we should recruit black people in numbers and not disperse them but keep them together so they can support themselves.