Italy has put a proposal to its European partners for a strong political response to the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union, that of creating transnational lists to allocate the 73 seats to be left empty by British members of the European Parliament in the 2019 European elections.
“The most straightforward and forthcoming option would be assigning 73 seats formally allotted to the UK to a single European constituency”, to allow the European political families to...