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Sowing the seeds for political life beyond Juncker President Juncker is coming up to two years in office. He was elected to office on 15 July 2014 and his new Commission was appointed on 1 November 2014 for a five-year term. After a slow start,  a full legislative package on President Juncker’s priority areas is … Read more

I thought it was time that I write out the model I use for winning legislative political campaigns in the EU. I have been asked to write it before, but I now have a lot of time on my hands, so got around to it. I am sure there are many holes in it. I’d … Read more

You will recall that the Environment Committee on 22 March 2016 adopted a Resolution opposing the draft Implementing act on the extension of the approval period of the active substance glyphosate. A cross party group of objectors (Pavel Poc (S&D), Bas Eickhout (Verts/ALE), Piernicola Pedicini (EFDD),Mark Demesmaeker (ECR), Sirpa Pietikäinen (PPE),  Frédérique Ries (ALDE), Kate?ina … Read more

Better Regulation and Delegated Legislation   On the expectation that few people (in or outside the Commission)  read the rules about how the Commission operate and prepare laws ( and the same rules they fortunately publish), I wanted to provide a brief summary of how the new Commission Better Regulation rules  impact delegated legislation. The … Read more