National MPs demand more say in EU law-making

EUObserver reports on the 27 June 2014 on a letter signed by leading members of twenty of the EU's national parliaments in June 2014 calling for a working-group to be set up tasked with drawing up a plan to increase the role of national law-makers in EU decision-making.

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