EU parliamentaries don't initiate laws, and, during the "trilogue" with the EC and the Council, they don't hold the pen on the final version. If any entity is

EU parliamentaries don't initiate laws, and, during the "trilogue" with the EC and the Council, they don't hold the pen on the final version. If any entity is "self-sabotaging", it's the European Commission. But it's not self-sabotage, it's simply yet another bureaucratic measure to assert power and control the population.