The Task Force on subsidiarity and proportionality (also known as “doing less, more efficiently”) presented its 50-page report to the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Tuesday 10 January. Nine recommendations are made therein, including the need to revise the European treaties in order to lengthen the time allowed for national parliaments to respond to a legislative proposal, the famous “yellow card”.
The first vice-president of the European Commission,...