The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, will invite MEPs and staff of the European institution in mid-April to reflect on the Parliament of the post-Covid-19 future, as part of an initiative called ‘Rethink parliamentary democracy’. In an interview with EUROPE, he called for the European Union to be given new powers in the area of public health, as was the case after the mad cow crisis in the early 2000s. He also considered it necessary to prioritise the work of the...