A Commission document to be published on Wednesday (16 June) will show that Brussels will miss its target of cutting the body of EU legislation by 25% before the end of this year.
The communication from the Commission, obtained by the EUobserver, assesses the progress of the EU executive in reducing and simplifying the so-called "acquis communautaire", the vast body of EU law that runs to over 80,000 pages.
In 2001, the Commission set itself the target of reducing the volume of ...
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