On Friday 10 February, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Harlem Désir, announced that France had brought proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union to challenge the adoption by the European Parliament, on 1 December of last year, of the general budget of the EU for 2017 at a 'mini-session' in Brussels, rather than in Strasbourg at an ordinary plenary session.
The French government takes the view that this procedure is in breach of the provisions of the...