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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.
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More than two thousand five hundred Slovaks have already participated in the events of the Conference on the Future of Europe. Ideas are also flooding in on the web platform, but men and university educated people are disproportionately involved. The suggestions will be processed by the plenary session of the conference, which also includes Slovak MEPs from the European Committee.
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The European citizens' panels are slowly finishing their work. The second part of the conference is about to begin, in which representatives of politicians and Europeans alike will have to assess what the legacy of the European Year of Reform will be. EURACTIV provides an overview of the Conference on the Future of Europe so far.
