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Negotiators will meet in Strasbourg for the first time to discuss delegated and implementing acts. (Photo: European Parliament)

MEPs and states scrap over lawmaking powers

Negotiations will begin on Tuesday (12 September) in Strasbourg on the future of a little-known, but often used way of legislating in the EU.

The talks are between the European Parliament and the Council of the EU, the latter representing national governments, and they had been delayed for over a year.

They are about how to delineate between what should be an implementing and a delegated act, and while that may seem technical and boring, it is basically about how much power the EU...

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