In Strasbourg on Wednesday 18th April, the European Parliament approved by a large majority (550 votes to 70 with 72 abstentions) the own-initiative report by Mady Delvaux (S&D, Luxembourg) on subsidiarity and proportionality for 2015 and 2016, which warns against an interpretation of these principles for Eurosceptic purposes.
The vote is no surprise, as the Parliament's legal affairs committee supported the text virtually unanimously in late March. It arose from cooperation between the...