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The institutional set-up which would make the Commission the "European government" by turning the Council into a second legislative chamber would sound the death knell of the Community method and the triumph of the directories

The EPP should think again. The idea of restricting the Council of the EU to a legislative role by making the Commission the "European government" originated in Germany, inspired by their constitutional system;but the European People's Party (EPP) have adopted it as their position and it consequently taken on another dimension. How have the leaders of a political movement to which Europe owes so much been able to lose their way on this point ? And yet, their wording is unambiguous and I...