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Co-President
Manon Aubry (France Insoumise, France) said:
“The process of defining the role and composition of the assembly for the upcoming Conference on Future of Europe has taken too long and has underlined the difficulties and limits of the proposed framework in providing the profound changes that the EU requires.”
“What we really need is the broad involvement of citizens, which will lead to a clear change of rules and new EU treaties which have failed to address the climate and social crisis.”
Co-President
Martin Schirdewan (Die Linke, Germany) added:
”The Conference on the Future of Europe is threatening to degenerate into a mere talking shop. The European institutions have been arguing for over a year about what the Conference should and is allowed to do. What falls by the wayside is the actual goal of the Conference, namely to give citizens, trade unions, social movements and NGOs a voice in our democracy. So far, the only thing that we can agree on is t