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The closest Cameron has got to setting out an EU "shopping list" yet few have noticed

March 17, 2014

What do David Cameron’s seven EU reform commitments mean?Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron set out seven objectives – or eight if you read between the lines – for a Conservative EU reform agenda ahead of that potentia…

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#EUReform, david cameron, deregulation, EU budget, EU red tape, EU referendum, EU regional policy, red card, TTIP, yellow card

Commission’s dismissal of national parliaments’ concerns over EPPO shows why a red card is needed

November 28, 2013

While all eyes are on EU free movement and EU migrant’s rights to welfare access, the Commission has put out its response to the ‘yellow card’ shown by national parliaments with respect to its proposal for a European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) -…

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commission, EPPO, EU reform, national parliaments, red card, yellow card

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

National democracy pushing back: European Commission shown its second ever ‘yellow card’

October 29, 2013

The European Commission has just been shown its second ever ‘yellow card’. Remember, this is the provision introduced by the Lisbon Treaty, stating that if one third or more national parliaments object to an EU proposal on subsidiarity grounds (wi…

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EPPO, European Commission, European Public Prosecutor, Monti II, red card, subsidiarity, yellow card

Hague says UK wants national parliaments to have power to show ‘red card’ to EU proposals

May 31, 2013

William Hague backs giving national parliaments a new ‘red card’ to replace the current yellow cardWilliam Hague will today further develop plans for a new ‘red card’ system for national parliaments to block unwelcome laws from Brussels, a mo…

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This is welcome stuff: David Lidington says national parliaments could be given a ‘red card’ over EU proposals

May 17, 2013

National Parliaments’ should be allowed to show the EU the red cardThis is an idea that’s very close to our hearts – and an idea that we have promoted for a very long time.The first bits of UK Europe Minister David Lidington’s interview with German dai…

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bundestag, commission, commons, democracy, democratic deficit, EU reform, germany, localism, Monti II, national parliaments, red card, yellow card

Commons weighs in on deposit schemes

October 25, 2010

Hats off to the House of Commons.Earlier today it grasped the nettle and employed the Lisbon Treaty’s ‘yellow card’ procedure for the first time (if nine national parliaments object to a proposal from the Commission on ‘subsidiarity’ grounds, within an…

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