Citizens to get a say on how EU evolves after Brexit shock


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Jan 2020

FILE PHOTO: European Union flags fly outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Citizens of the European Union will have a say on how the bloc should change to meet their needs under a proposal of the executive European Commission as it seeks to digest the lessons of Brexit.

Encouraged by a high turnout in last May's European Parliament elections, the Commission proposes that EU institutions and officials engage in discussions with the bloc's roughly half a billion citizens over the next two years on what kind of EU they want.

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