U.K.’s Hague Says Parliaments Should Have EU Veto Power

U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called for national parliaments to be given the power to veto some European Union legislation to improve the democratic accountability of the bloc.

Parliaments already have the power to show a “yellow card” and ask the European Commission to rethink legislation where action should be taken at a national rather than European level and that should be extended to allow it to be stopped, Hague said in a speech today in Neuhardenberg, Germany.