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By Antoine KREMER, ABBL ALFI Head of European Affairs
On 1st of July Finland will take over from their Romanian colleagues the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Already in normal years, presidencies falling into the second half of the year are structurally shorter. For one the summer break stretching from mid-July to the end of August takes out a month and a half. Then December is also shorter as not much happens in the last third of the month because of the end of the year festive season. This usually doesn’t leave much time to achieve for ambitious presidencies. This year around a new European Parliament and a new European Commission provide for very few interinstitutional negotiations or new legislative proposals.
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