By adopting on Wednesday 13 July the draft report by Charles Goerens (Renew Europe, Luxembourgian) and Rainer Wieland (EPP, German), the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs does not prohibit the possibility for political parties from Council of Europe Member States to be members of a European political party or to finance it, contrary to the position of the Council of the EU (see EUROPE B12916A23).
MEPs set out a number of provisions to allow ‘like-minded...