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Does Brussels make 80 percent of European laws?

2024-03-23 13:18:55Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Does Brussels make 80 percent of European laws?

How much of European legislation comes from the European Union? It has been a long-running debate for many years now with many Eurosceptic and even Europhile politicians claiming that the EU imposes 80% of its laws on member states.

The problem with quantifying laws is finding accurate and recent numbers.

Previous studies looking at this found the EU's influence to be significantly smaller: more than 20-25%, according to this 2009 French study.

Most studies claim that while the EU regulates a lot in some areas, the answer is not so straightforward.

This is because, in some areas, Brussels tends to heavily influence certain policies, while other areas are left to member states to decide.

Europe has areas or policy areas with high percentages (more than 50%) of Europeanized laws in the field of agriculture, environmental policy and in the field of economy.

And there are also areas with a lower percentage of laws coming from the EU (well below 50%) in the field of labor and employment, in internal security and also in health.

Why this big difference between multiple fields? This is because some EU legislation is needed at a wider level to be more effective, for example in the case of migration or climate change.

Many of the laws that have historically come from Brussels have been largely technical such as customs regulation and it is better to focus on the quality rather than the quantity of legislation coming from the EU.

The phrase can be attributed to Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995.

Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and the modern European Union. He once said in a speech that by the year 2000, "80% of economic legislation will be of Community origin". The phrase stuck and has since been regularly repeated and used to spread misinformation.


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