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'Doing less' group may conclude EU should do more

EU Political

by Peter Teffer, Brussels,

A group investigating which policy areas could be better dealt with at a national instead of a European level could end up concluding the opposite - that the EU should expand its policies.

The group is called the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and 'Doing Less More Efficiently' and was set up by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker last November.

But after five monthly meetings of the task force, and a public hearing on Monday (28 May), one of its key memb...