This is a slimline version of Mr Sarkozy's mini-treaty, favoured notably by the British, who do not want to hold a referendum or be dragooned into another huge convention or IGC.
Mr Bremer himself displayed "distaste, bordering on contempt" for some of the figures in the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC), the body he set up to put an Iraqi face on the occupation.
In 1948 a decision was made at the 18th International Geological Congress (IGC) in London that the base of the Pleistocene Series should be fixed in marine rocks exposed in the coastal areas of Calabria in southern Italy.
Following the failed attempts during the last half of the 19th century of the International Geological Congress (IGC; founded 1878) to standardize a stratigraphic scale, the International Union of Geological Sciences IUGSS; founded 1961) established a Commission on Stratigraphy to work toward that end.
The IGC asked Eurotunnel, which operates the tunnel, to work out detailed rules to take this into account.
But the whole thing could still be revised by the national governments of the EU, meeting in an inter-governmental conference (IGC) beginning in October.Related items Europe's proposed constitution: Where to file itJun 19th 2003Is this the creation of a European state?Tricky.
The Intergovernmental Commission (IGC), which governs safety in the tunnel, considered the question last year and concluded that trains with distributed power would be acceptable so long as they were equipped to isolate a fire anywhere along their length.
Yet although nobody has much to gain from prolonging the conference beyond the Amsterdam meeting, there is every likelihood that the IGC will slip into Luxembourg's EU presidency, which starts on July 1st.
A possible compromise would be to insist on unanimity for any use of flexibility in the first pillar (where single-market concerns are strong), but allow majority approval to use it in the second or third pillars.The IGC may be esoteric but, without a successful treaty, enlargement talks cannot realistically start.
That could mean deferring any real change until enlargement.Flexing musclesThe third big issue at the IGC is "flexibility"—the latest buzzword for an idea that has been knocking around since the first enlargement in 1973.
Even Britain's Conservatives conceded in the early stages of the IGC that they might accept a limited extension of majority voting.
