Upgrading UK influence in the European Union: A strategy to improve upstream scrutiny of EU legislation

In a new report published by Open Europe, Tobias Ellwood MP urges the UK Parliament to look at new ways to improve the way in which scrutiny of EU issues is carried out – to promote a new understanding of what the EU does, increase transparency and accountability about the way EU policy is made, explore how Parliament can influence it and examine how Britain can enhance her role in the process.

The report argues that a new approach is needed and makes 13 recommendations that would improve Government Ministers, the civil service and Parliament’s ability to contribute towards shaping, tempering or indeed rejecting proposed EU legislation emanating from Brussels.

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Open Europe: Press Release, 03.12.12: Giving the UK Parliament more power in EU decision making – a new report by Tobias Ellwood MP http://www.openeurope.org.uk/Article/Page/en/LIVE?id=9641&page=PressReleases

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