§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under which article of the Treaty of Rome the Luxembourg compromise of 1966 was formulated; and from which it derives its legality.
§ Mr. RifkindThe Luxembourg compromise records the positions of member States in January 1966 on majority voting where important national interests were involved, on which there was a divergence between France and the other five. It is not a legal document.