10/12/2018 (Agence Europe) – A group of 120 intellectuals (including French economist Thomas Piketty) and left-wing politicians from 16 Member States launched an appeal in the French newspaper Le Monde on Sunday 9 December to reform the Union and give it a new structure. They propose to increase the EU budget to 4% of European GDP, financed by taxes on corporate profits, carbon emissions, and high incomes and wealth. They wish to create a "Sovereign European Assembly" made up of national...