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Laws are negotiated without member states officials having a clear idea of their effect on consumers or businesses, say experts (Photo: consilium.europa.au)

Tough battle expected on EU law-making culture

The European Commission has woken up to the charge that it over-regulates but says the only way things will properly change is if MEPs and member states stop blindly making major amendments to laws.

It set out its stall on better law-making in December by saying it planned just 23 initiatives in 2015, a quarter of the output of recent years.

The slim 2015 work programme represents something of a cultural revolution in the commission and now it wants to have the same sort of shake-...

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Laws are negotiated without member states officials having a clear idea of their effect on consumers or businesses, say experts (Photo: consilium.europa.au)

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