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The Parliament is not so impotent since the new codecision rules under the Lisbon Treaty and has been happy to flex its new-found muscles. Moreover, if the responses to my letter to my MEPs on this subject are at all indicative, most or all of the major political groups in Brussels are outright hostile to ACTA at this point. I suspect De Gucht may have overestimated his influence here. He has also perhaps forgotten t…
Seriously, how flawed is the design of the EU's political institutions? - No constitution right from the beginning. - Executive can overrule legislative (and even judicative?) - Legislative can hold up executive meetings (??)
- No, commission can't overrule the EP. The parliament can reject commission-proposed legislation, and it can fire the commission.
edit: see the parliament doing its thing against ACTA here: http://www.rt.com/news/acta-committee-final-vote-365/