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Originally Posted by jonbxx
Does the Commission self approve these directives or is there another mechanism for approving the directives they propose?
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Nice try - but from your question it sounds like you don’t understand how the proposal, revision and acceptance of EU law actually works.
The Commission proposes and develops legislation. The Parliament must be consulted and may propose amendments (which the Commission does not have to accept). The Parliament must consent to the final formulation and may withhold that consent (but in practice, does not), and the Council of Ministers takes the final decision on whether to enact. In the Council, we have one elected representative out of 28 and an ever-shrinking number of areas in which they can exercise a veto.
That’s the process which I’m pretty sure you didn’t previously understand ... no need to thank me.
And I stand by my claim that the pretend parliament is more or less an irrelevance in the overall process.