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Should the European Parliament be given a right of legislative initiative?

In the run-up to the European elections, several parties’ manifestoes (see EUROPE B12259A1) talked of giving the European Parliament a right of legislative initiative. In May, Manfred Weber, the Christian Democrat candidate for the Presidency of the Commission, took position in favour of the idea (see EUROPE B12246A2); then, the outgoing President of the EP, Antonio Tajani, also got behind it (see B12251A3).

Currently, the Parliament already enjoys a ‘right of initiative’, which...