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Balance of Competences Review

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ81461915 ↗
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The Balance of Competences Review was an “audit of what the EU (European Union) does and how it affects the UK (United Kingdom)”, carried out by the United Kingdom Government during the Cameron–Clegg coalition. It was launched in 2012 and the set of reports was published in December 2014, but without a single summary final report.

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This entry incorporates text from “Balance of Competences Review” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.