To prevent the EU from longer periods of paralysis, especially on critical issues, ending veto power and granting more EU authority in key areas like healthcare, energy, defence, and economic policies is crucial for progress, according to European Parliament’s spokesman and director general for communication, Jaume Duch Guillot.
The current legislature enters its final round, as we’ll have European elections next summer, which are an important test on how the citizens of the EU states perceive the successive crises from the last years: the pandemic, the wars raging in their proximity and also the energy crisis. If you were to make an assessment on the current situation and a prediction on the future, how does the European Union emerge from this troubled time?
The European Union has been able to readjust and reinvent itself to be effective in the face of the enormous crises that have unfolded since the beginning of this legislature.
This includes managing a pandemic in a very…
