The Social Democratic Group (S&D) in the European Parliament is suggesting that the Conference on the Future of Europe should be extended to 2023, as the Covid-19 pandemic and the inter-institutional mix-up over the choice of presidency have so far prevented this pan-European reflection exercise from getting off the ground.
The proposal to extend the work of the conference to 2023, set out in a policy paper published by the S&D group on Thursday 10 December, retains the original two-year...