Meeting in a plenary session in Strasbourg on Thursday 9 June, MEPs will debate the follow-up to the Conference on the Future of Europe and, in a resolution to be adopted on the same day, will reiterate their wish that the Council of the European Union convene a convention on the institutional reform of the EU.
The aim for the Parliament is to keep the idea of a revision of the treaties alive, as the European Council on 23 and 24 June is expected to discuss the proposals emanating from the Conference on the Future of Europe.
At the beginning of May, the Parliament mandated the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) to prepare a report clarifying which sectoral policies and competences of the EU institutions could be revised and how these policies and competences would be changed (see EUROPE 12962/18).
A first draft text that has been circulated suggests, among other things, making health a shared competence and abolishing the rule of unanimity of Member States in the EU Council on fiscal and social issues or when revising the EU’s electoral law (see EUROPE 12962/18).
On Thursday 2 June, the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament’s political groups (CoP) confirmed that the AFCO Committee would draw up a report in response to the Conference’s requests by September. Exceptionally, it appointed six rapporteurs from a different political group, although the EPP group pointed out that such an approach was contrary to the European Parliament’s internal rules. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)