Does the European Parliament have powers similar to the US Congress? Or is it more of a symbolic political body with not as much power?
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It does not have as much power as Congress, although Congress would be the right analogue. The European Parliament basically gets paid to do a lot of nothing…
To be honest they discuss laws proposed by the European Commission, can propose amendments to these laws and in the end they have to approve the laws for them to be enacted (but the Council of the European Union also has to approve). The same goes for the EU budget, but that’s it.
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