It was supposed to be a "cleaning-the-desk" exercise.
Draft laws that are obsolete or watered down beyond recognition will be binned, while only laws that are “really necessary” will be put forward – resulting in 23 proposals for the coming year with the priority being the creation of an investment fund meant to attract €315bn worth of private and public money across Europe.
But when EU commission president J...
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