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The Stoiber report: a milestone in the fight against EU red tape?

October 14, 2014

Edmund Stoiber presents his reportToday saw the publication of the final report of the “High Level Group on Administrative Burdens”, i.e. an EU taskforce charged with cutting red tape and easing its impact on businesses. The group – chaired by former C…

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Barosso, better regulation, cost of EU regulation, EU red tape, Frans Timmermans, Stoiber report, working time directive

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Attention new European Commission! This is how to save £200bn, kick-start growth and re-connect the EU with voters

September 8, 2014

This morning, Open Europe published a ‘mandate’ for the new European Commission – in short a series of proposals setting out what the Commission should – and shouldn’t – be doing over its five year term of office. Our mandate idea was inspired by the r…

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EU budget, EU reform, European Commission, Frans Timmermans, Open Europe mandate, services liberalisation

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The Dutch are emerging as Europe’s thought leaders on reform

November 15, 2013

The Dutch are quickly becoming Europe’s thought leaders on EU reform. The Dutch government’s “subsidiarity review” contained numerous interesting ideas for EU reform, the Dutch lower house, Tweede Kamer recently published a paper outlining key proposal…

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dutch subsidiarity review, EU reform, European Commission, european parliament, Frans Timmermans, green card, late card, national parliaments, Netherlands, red card, subsidiarity, Tweede Kamer, yellow card

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