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EurActiv.com / EurActiv,fr / EurActiv.pl, 20 November 2015 […] “The introduction of a ‘red card’ mechanism would significantly alter the constitutional equilibrium in the EU and transform national parliaments into a collective veto player that could block the European Commission’s legislative initiatives, said Valentin Kreilinger, a research fellow at the Jacques Delors Institute.
David Cameron has sent a letter to the President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, outlining the key elements that he will seek in a renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership. As Valentin Kreilinger writes, one of Cameron’s demands is to strengthen the role of national parliaments in the EU’s legislative process, with the provision of …
It is not the first time in recent European integration history that a single national leader has expressed the desire to (re)negotiate something.[1] Angela Merkel did so in 2007-2009 when she wanted to save the main elements of the Constitutional Treaty. The German Chancellor once again, singlehandedly (or nearly), fought for a treaty, albeit a …