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Article: Snoring while a superstate emerges? Charlemagne.(The remit of the European Union)(Industry Overview)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 10, 2003
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The European Union's powers are quietly but steadily growing
CRITICS of the European Union often warn that it is in danger of mutating into a "superstate" which gobbles up the powers of the 15 countries that belong to it. Rather than being alarmist, this warning is in some ways curiously behind the times. In most EU countries more than half of new laws are already drafted in Brussels and then simply translated into national law.
Getting firm statistics is tricky. The Economist contacted all the major Brussels institutions and embassies to ask for estimates of the balance between national and European legislation across the EU. In most cases the responses ...