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Terry Reintke MEP, posted to twitter, asking what one change would her correspondents make to the EU. Terry is a co-president of the Green/EFA European Parliamentary group and a loud advocate for welcoming the UK back into the EU. She’s looking after our “Star”. She is also part of the Parliament’s delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Assembly, which provides parliamentary oversight over the implementation of the Trade and Co-operation agreement. I wonder if it’s met? She says,
If you could change one thing about the European Union (no unanimity or majorities needed, just magically), what would it be?
- Terry Reintke (@TerryReintke) November 23, 2022
I have replied, below is my draft; the tweet is different, as I sought to break what I wanted to say into 248 byte chunks, and frankly tried to improve its readability for this article.
There are many great proposals in the #CoFoE final report. https://bit.ly/cofoefinal. If having to choose one, I’d choose 11.3, i.e. including the goals of greening the economy and social justice within the EU’s economic governance system; I’d make the Semester i.e. the economic governance rules. a Regulation, not have it embedded in treaty. Economic Policy goals must be accountable to democratic politics, and not become embedded in unchangeable treaties.
