EU to launch Europe-wide debate on future of the union
(WorldNews Belgium)

It´s an explicit recognition that the whole Brexit affair reflected a wide alienation of citizens across the EU. The EU must now find ways of bridging that gulf, and the Conference on the Future of Europe, to be launched in Dubrovnik in May - 70 years after the signing of the Schuman Declaration and 75 years after the end of the second World War - is supposed to do that. The two-year conference, we are told, will be broadly representative and tap into the perspectives of member states through the EU Council, MEPs, the European Commission, national parliaments, regional authorities and NGOs, as well as initiating dialogue between citizens at national level. They will all be `contributing as...