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6/17/20

EU: Conference on the Future of Europe – a stepping stone to a European federation? by Juuso Järviniemi, Kalojan Hoffmeister

 When Ursula von der Leyen was selected as the Commission President through shady backroom deals last summer, she promised a serious debate about the various institutional issues that caused turmoil in Brussels during last year’s European elections. The Conference would be the arena for this debate: the agenda will include questions like how to save the ‘Spitzenkandidaten’ system, how to reform European elections and whether create a European-wide constituency for European elections. Besides institutional puzzles, the Conference is meant to yield ideas for the EU’s political priorities for the years to come.

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Conference on the Future of Europe – a stepping stone to a European federation? - The New Federalist

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