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Re:Parliament asks EU Commission to press for full US-EU vis... by akmarinov on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:01AM (#13775049)
Well, all the EU parliament can do is ask. If the commission refuses, then parliament will have to sue the commission for not upholding the law, that can take a couple of years to resolve and by that time things will probably be a lot different. The process first began in 2014 and 3 years later, as you can see nothing has happened, don't expect anything to happen in the next 4-5 years.
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Re:Parliament asks EU Commission to press for full US-EU vis... by happy_tentacles on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:33AM (#13775396)
Truth be told, the press release is somewhat misleading. European Parliament is calling on European Commission to take a closer look at own Directive from 2001 (3 years before the countries in question joined the club).

The European Parliament has run this file through a non-legislative procedure, which explains why the press release says "urge the Commission" and places the time limit for action in quotes.

While it is a clear indication of what Members of the European Parliament stand for, there is no immediate legal implications of it - political yes... The European Parliament is a curious legal construct.

There is a plenty of wiggle room to avoid any direct action by the European Commission.

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Re:Parliament asks EU Commission to press for full US-EU vis... by nyordanov on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:30PM (#13776076)
IMO, one of the major EU-related things that people are not aware of is that the European Parliament doesn't possess legislative initiative. EU laws are initiated by the European Commission (or) at the request of one or more member states.
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Re:Parliament asks EU Commission to press for full US-EU vis... by gpderetta on Thursday March 02, 2017 @11:06AM (#13775096)
Technically the parliament can give a vote of no confidence and dismiss the commission. Whether it will actually do that for this issue is another story.
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Re:Parliament asks EU Commission to press for full US-EU vis... by type0 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @07:13PM (#13779642)
EU parliament shouldn't be called a parliament as it doesn't do much other than to provide a false sense of democracy, they could call it something else, like "debating bait"...
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