The European Commission and the Luxembourg Presidency aim to wrap up negotiations for a new interinstitutional agreement – governing relations between the Commission, Council and Parliament – by the end of 2015. Judging from the first discussions, the objective seems ambitious.
The talks are not an ordinary, clearly framed legislative negotiation. The institutions therefore have to organise and find an ad hoc way of proceeding, especially in Parliament, where MEPs finally came to a decision in mid-June. Opposite the Luxembourg…