The COVID-19 pandemic “only adds to the urgency” of launching “an in-depth reflection on how to be more effective and democratic” and the Conference on the Future of Europe, which should start “as soon as the opportunity arises”, is “the appropriate forum” for such a reflection, the European Parliament said in the resolution it adopted on Friday 17 April (see EUROPE B12469A2).
Prior to the health crisis, the timetable called for the European Union’s institutional...