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Kjer Hansen chairs the Danish parliament's European affairs committee (Photo: evakjerhansen)

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'I'm in politics to seek solutions, not to block things'

Debating how to increase the role of national parliaments in EU law making is far from being a new subject, nor is it one to set the pulse racing

But that didn't matter to the several hundred political hacks, academics and diplomatic corps from a raft of European countries who gathered in London this week for a two-day conference on EU reform organised by the Open Europe think tank.

The Lisbon treaty introduced an innovation - the “yellow card” system - under which an EU legislati...

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Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kjer Hansen chairs the Danish parliament's European affairs committee (Photo: evakjerhansen)

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Author Bio

Benjamin Fox is a seasoned reporter and editor, previously working for fellow Brussels publication Euractiv. His reporting has also been published in the Guardian, the East African, Euractiv, Private Eye and Africa Confidential, among others. He heads up the AU-EU section at EUobserver, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

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