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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8258

19 July 2002
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/convention
Duff proposes election of Commission President by a congress, bringing European Parliament and national parliaments together

Brussels, 18/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - British Liberal Democrat Andrew Duff has made further proposals to the European Convention intended to strengthen the role of national parliaments. They mainly recommend: (1) allowing a majority of national parliaments to call for a third reading of Community legislative texts by the European Parliament and Council of Ministers, thus giving national parliaments "an emergency stop button" and obliging the two chambers of the EU legislature to reconsider...

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