During the first discussions on the draft directive at the regional development committee (REGI) on Thursday 27 September, introducing the mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context, the European Parliament’s rapporteur, Matthijs van Miltenburg (ALDE, Netherlands) argued that the proposal should be made slightly more flexible in order to align it more effectively with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
At the end of May the...