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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10647
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) institutional

EP wants its president to attend European Councils

Brussels, 03/07/2012 (Agence Europe) - MEPs certainly have the bit between their teeth: their president, directly elected by universal suffrage, should be entitled to attend European Council meetings. They argue that this is a matter of democratic legitimacy at the very moment when the future of the economic and monetary union (EMU) is under debate. The European Parliament, they say, would be better placed than national governments, whose eyes are firmly on their own domestic issues, to...

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