An influential group of British MEPs is urging the UK presidency to throw open member states' EU law-making debates to public scrutiny.
The members want UK foreign minister Jack Straw to put the issue on the agenda of the next meeting of the general affairs council (GAC) in Luxembourg on 3 October.
The move would simply require member states' assent to change the GAC's rules of procedure, but would in effect revive a key transparency clause of the failed EU constitution.
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