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While Slovakia was busy discussing a defence agreement with the US, two hundred random Europeans in Maastricht managed to agree on 40 recommendations on foreign policy and migration. Without insults, without name-calling and with relevant conclusions. The question in a million is whether anyone will care.
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Citizens are sending radical demands to the European institutions. They want to add healthcare to the EU's competences and they want to see the same quality and access to treatment in all countries. But that would first require the states to give up their powers.
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Changes to the Union's competences must be initiated by the Member States. Getting everyone to agree will be difficult, but I rule out a two-speed Europe, says European Commission Vice-President DUBRAVKA ŠUICA in an interview.
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Research projects at the Future of Europe Conference also come up with curious ideas. For example, focus group participants suggested that the Union should redistribute production across Member States. In general, however, they particularly called for greater EU involvement in areas where it has no competence today.