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The European Parliament’s legal experts believe that the establishment of a Union-wide constituency, which would allow all European citizens to elect MEPs from transnational lists, is compatible with the Treaty on European Union (Article 14 (2)), in an opinion issued at the end of January at the request of the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs.
In particular, the lawyers point out that MEPs elected from...