On 28 January 1999, on behalf of the Committee on Institutional Affairs for which he is the rapporteur, Jean-Louis Bourlanges submits a report to the European Parliament on the decision-making process in the Council in an enlarged Europe. Given the extension of the Union’s monetary and political powers and in anticipation of the forthcoming enlargement, the report considers the nature of the ‘role of the Council’ and the reform of the structures and procedures that enable it to exercise this role.