EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : BETTER LEGISLATION, COMMUNICATION ARE PRIORITIES FOR HARALD ROMER.

Harald Romer intends to include the principle of better legislation' and communication with citizens as part of his responsibilities in his new position. Although he officially succeeds Julian Priestley (UK) as the new Secretary-General of the European Parliament on 1 March, Romer presented his priorities to the EP's Budget Committee (COBU) in Brussels on 27 February."Overprepared," is how certain MEPs reacted. Indeed, Harald Romer has a thorough in-depth knowledge of the workings of the EP. Prior to his latest appointment, he served as deputy secretary-general of the EP for a good ten years, after having been the secretary-general of the EPP-ED Group and having spent a short …