At the
ELDR Leaders and Prime Ministers meeting held on June 21st in Brussels, President of LYMEC,
Roger Albinyana, regretted publicly that in spite of so many necessary and urgent topics for the EU to act on foreign and domestic issues, the 27 heads of state and government would be discussing at the Summit about power weights, institutional settings and cows.
In front of liberal Prime Ministers, EU Commissioners and party leaders, Roger Albinyana underlined the key areas that LYMEC wants to see kept, if we are to have a forward-looking Treaty designed to tackle challenges of the future:
- Abolition of the pillar structure in the Treaty
- Creation of a Union with legal personality
- Extension of the majority voting in the Council
- Stronger role of the European Parliament
- Reduction of the use of national vetoes in future
- Binding status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
- Right of one million citizens to influence EU’s legislative agenda (citizens initiative)
