The road from Strasbourg: the European Parliament should lower its sights, put its house in order, and move to Brussels. (Brussels, Belgium) (editorial)

Economist (US), The, April, 1991

The European Parliament should lower its sights, put its house in order, and move to Brussels

ONCE, Europe's power struggles were fought out on the battlefields of the Somme or of Normandy. Now, and happily, power in the European Community is being boringly bargained over in a thing called the inter-governmental conference on political union". Part of the likely outcome is already clear: EC governments are set to reassert their strength (through their summits and their Council of Ministers) over the ambitious European Commission. Still unclear is the future role of a third, so far minor Euro-power, the European Parliament. Because the Germans have now linked its for, tunes to those of economic and monetary union, the battle over the parliament threatens to be...

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