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Konryan on March 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: European Parliament approves copyright reform

That's not exactly true. Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something, and citizens can put forward proposal through the ECI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative

vetinari on March 26, 2019 | [–]

And the Commission can ignore both, if they feel like it.

That's a very long way to anything that resembles democratic control.

sampo on March 26, 2019 | [–]

> Parliament can petition the Commission to legislate on something

Has this ever happened in practice?

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