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Karl-Heinz Lambertz (r), member of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and 'Doing Less More Efficiently', with the task force's chairman, Frans Timmermans (Photo: European Commission)

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How Juncker's 'do less' group concluded EU should not do less

The president of one EU institution will not quickly publicly criticise the president of another one.

But when Karl-Heinz Lambertz, president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), watched the annual State of the Union speech by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker last month, it did not quite contain what he expected.

In the preceding months Lambertz had been involved with a body - set up at the request of Juncker - which dealt with the issue of subsidiarity: the pri...

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Karl-Heinz Lambertz (r), member of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and 'Doing Less More Efficiently', with the task force's chairman, Frans Timmermans (Photo: European Commission)

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