10-10-2018 10:00
Parliament's powers of political control over the Commission after Lisbon

Brussels
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On Wednesday 10 October, AFCO is organising a public hearing on "Parliament's powers of political control over the Commission after Lisbon: lessons learnt and the way forward".

Two experts have been invited:
- Olivier Costa, Director of the Department of European Political and Administrative Studies, College of Europe, Brugge;
- Eva-Maria Poptcheva, PhD in Constitutional Law, author of "Parliamentary oversight: challenges facing classic scrutiny instruments and the emergence of new forms of 'steering' scrutiny".