Members of the European Parliament's constitutional affairs committee have strongly criticised plans by national parliaments to play a stronger role in preventing Brussels over-regulation.
MEPs meeting in the constitutional affairs committee on Tuesday (2 May) blasted national parliaments' deal, struck last autumn, to jointly scrutinise European Commission legislation potentially in breach of the principle of "subsidiarity".
The subsidiarity principle, enshrined in the EU treaty,...
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