A vote on modifying the way that the European Parliament agrees EU legislation is on the agenda of the constitutional affairs committee on Monday (17 September). The current process, the so-called ...

At its first session after the summer break, the European Convention will deal with the issue of EU legislative procedures. Convention members will discuss the simplification of instruments and ...

Under certain conditions, the power to adopt delegated or implementing acts may be conferred on the European Commission. In duly justified specific cases and in the cases provided for in Articles 24 ...

The European Parliament has agreed a wide-ranging package of reforms of its internal rules covering the legislative process, budgetary functions, and plenary activities, a senior parliamentary ...

“If civic-affairs news is the broccoli of American journalism, then coverage of legislative procedure is the unsalted lima bean.” This will be the year journalism finally explains arcane legislative ...

Only parliament acting as the legislative branch of government can pass laws. However, the legislative process holds little value other than allowing the opposition to express its discontent. As an ...

Conferences of representatives of the governments of the member states are convened to discuss and agree EU treaty changes. These meetings are also known as 'intergovernmental conferences' (IGCs). The ...

Climate engineering in general and solar radiation management (SRM) in particular raise profound and complex political, legal, social, and ethical questions that go well beyond technical-feasibility ...