Think-tanks call for stronger successor to Barroso

Several Brussels-based think tanks gathered for their annual dialogue and concluded that the next European Commission risked slipping into inertia if EU leaders did not reform the executive and allow for a stronger president to take charge.

The participants agreed on the need to treaty changes, but member states have had a diverging idea of what a changed treaty should look like.

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ESO: Background information: Merkel allies keen to curb EU powers http://www.europeansources.info/record/merkel-allies-keen-to-curb-eu-powers/

ESO: Background information: Europe’s ‘structural reform’ agenda is little more than a fairytale http://www.europeansources.info/record/europes-structural-reform-agenda-is-little-more-than-a-fairytale/

ESO: Background information: UK minister to launch ultimatum: Reform or we'll leave the EU http://www.europeansources.info/record/uk-minister-to-launch-ultimatum-reform-or-well-leave-the-eu/

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