The European Commission is trying to bypass democracy by using soft law instruments called "recommendations" to shape the EU's internal market, MEPs accused single market commissioner Charlie McCreevy at EUobserver's Creative Rights conference on Wednesday (29 November).
"They are circumventing the democratic process and we are furious," German conservative MEP Doris Pack said on Mr McCreevy's October 2005 recommendation covering record labels and pan-EU music licences as well as his p...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.