The first examination, on Wednesday 29 August, of the 929 amendments (975 including the rapporteur’s) on the proposal for a European Labour Authority at the European Parliament’s employment and social affairs committee (EMPL) led to intense debate among MEPs, firstly over the authority’s name, but also about how far its role should extend and the tasks to be attributed to it.
Rapporteur Jeroen Lenaers (EPP, the Netherlands) said it had made him think of Romeo and Juliet when he read...