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EU Observer (20 January 2021)

By Jaap Hoeksma

The inter-institutional war between the European Parliament and the European Council about the Conference on the Future of Europe is steadily turning the very idea of a conference into a risk for the future of Europe. 

As result of the stalemate between the body representing the EU citizens and the college, consisting of the leaders of the member-states of the Union, the danger increases by the day that the democratic nightmare of 2019, which gave rise to the suggestion of the conference, may be repeated in 2024. 

If so, the citizens and EU democracy will be the main victims of this most regrettable conflict.

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