EU member states laid aside the advice of their own legal experts in cutting MEPs out of talks on a new bank data deal with the US.
The legal services of the EU council (the member states’ secretariat in Brussels) in July put forward a confidential paper saying that the European Parliament should have co-legislative powers on the pact under articles 95 and 300 of the EU treaty, EUobserver has learned.
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