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... How important is the European Parliament? The European Parliament is the only directly elected part of the European Union's central infrastructure. The EP is supranational and with the Council of the European Union makes up the EU's legislature. There are 732 Members of the European Parliament, making it the second largest in the world after India. The three pillars of the EU give different powers to three bodies. The first pillar concerns the European Parliament. This pillar gives EP power over some policy areas not reserved for member states. This means the EP has power over the Single Market, the CAP, the Common Fisheries Policy, EU citizenship, the environment and asylum and immigration, among other powers. However, power over foreign and security policy is under the second pillar, and criminal policy is under the third pillar; as such, the EP lacks the power of a traditional Parliament who has
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