[Maken]

The European Parliament has no saying in what laws it votes. The European Commission draft those, and the Parliament can at best rectify or reject them.

[gpderetta]

The Parliament can ask the Commission to table a specific law though. And it can dismiss the commission at will.

So it doesn't have de-jure legislative powers, but de-facto it does.

[xxs]

> Commission to table a specific law though

Just for the folks on the West side of the Pond, pretty much means to drop the bill. "To table" is so weird.

[SiempreViernes]

No, "to table" in terms of (EU) parliamentary procedure means to begin the consideration, it's the US that uses "to table" to mean dismiss[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_(parliamentary_procedure...

[stephen_g]

Very strange, the US usage seems to be like what we would use “to shelve” for (as in take it off the table and put it on the shelf to forget about), at least in Australia and the UK.

[gpderetta]

As if the English language was not complex enough :D

[gpderetta]

Sorry for the confusion, I'm not a native speaker (although I live in UK). I meant that the parliament can ask the commission to present a specific law for discussion.

Of course the parliament doesn't need to ask the commission to drop a law, it can simply vote against it.