EU unwraps plan to cut back on red tape

EU officials have unveiled a plan to slim down what critics say is bloated bureaucracy made in Brussels.

The European Commission says a new leaner approach to lawmaking will ease concerns from voters and businesses about the reach and complexity of EU legislation.

The EU’s executive wants independent experts to scrutinise draft laws and periodic reviews of existing regulations.

“I am not bothered by the Eurosceptics because they are wrong, I am bothered because they are occasionally right. And if they are right, we have to tackle their concerns,” said First European Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans.

Timmermans said 70 percent of European Union citizens thought the 28-nation bloc had become “too complicated and too burdensome.”

The so-called “Better Regulation Package” would improve transparency and scrutiny of the entire EU legislative process, he said.

The move comes after British Prime Minister David Cameron won an election in the UK on platform of radically ov