http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20191209-060505-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-european-parliament-sidelined/ The European Parliament Sidelined Pech, Laurent Kochenov, Dimitry Vladimirovich Platon, Sébastien eng 2019-12-08 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Art. 7 TEU Council Legal Service European Parliament Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 When the Council adopted the first set of procedural rules governing Article 7(1) TEU hearings in July 2019, it unilaterally decided to make the Commission the proxy for the Parliament. This post will show how the Council’s differential treatment of the Commission and the Parliament as activating bodies under Article 7(1) is not compatible with EU primary law and goes against in particular the principle of institutional balance.