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It is clear that there is an urgent need for institutional reform within the European Union. In particular, problems created by the European Union's unworkable and overlapping laws must be addressed. Bad legislation has come mainly from the Council of Ministers, which lacks effective coordination. There will be no radical reform of the Council of Ministers, but a much stronger secretariat would at least offer better support to ministers. The European Commission is also seeking to simplify and consolidate European Union legislation.
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EU leaders at the intergovernmental conference (IGC) in Amsterdam introduced modest reforms, but failed to take on the hard issues of extension of qualified majority voting, reduction in size of the Commission and re-weighting of votes in the Council of Ministers. Conflicting EU legislation is due to the fact there there is one Council for each major are of departmental responsibility, and no effective coordination across the councils.
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The European Union launched an intergovernmental conference in February 2000 with the aim of reforming its institutions. Their target is to make the Union more flexible in advance of its enlargement processes.
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