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Filwaqt li l-Qorti Ewropea tal-\u0120ustizzja g\u0127adha qed tistudja l-ka\u017c, il-Kummissjoni qed to\u0127loq \u201dfait accompli' u qed taqbe\u017c il-Parlament. Dan l-appro\u010b\u010b ine\u0127\u0127i kwalunkwe le\u0121ittimit\u00e0 demokratika mill-ftehim u jo\u0127loq nuqqas kbir ta' \u010bertezza legali. Kull min ja\u0121ixxi b'dan il-mod qed ipo\u0121\u0121i ru\u0127u lil fuq mil-li\u0121i u qed jiddg\u0127ajjef il-bilan\u010b istituzzjonali tal-Unjoni Ewropea.\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhat the European Commission is doing here is an unprecedented abuse of power. To put an agreement into provisional effect even though it has neither been ratified by the European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"esn_date_approx":true,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trade-industry","tag-press-release"],"acf":{"activity_type":"","activity_location":"","related_mep":null,"news_location":"","news_byline":"ESN Group Press Office","news_readtime":"1 min read","news_intro":"The European Commission has announced that it intends to provisionally apply the trade and free trade agreement with the Mercosur bloc, even though it has not yet been ratified by the European Parliament and is currently under legal review by the European Court of Justice. 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