Italian For Min talking about getting EU closer to citizens. Five proposals: 1: Give EP legislative initiative (👍)
2: Make commission more political – has to behave more like a government would in taking initiative and leading (would surely mean Com Pres has to pick own team?)
3: Need to back the EP with bigger budgets provided through a European tax base and common bonds not just contributions from member states. Need to get closer to 24% of public spending as US Feds spend, from 1% at present.
That means moving away from unanimity on tax in the Council (seems implausible but you never know I guess). Focus on capturing taxes from big multinationals that they are currently avoiding.
4: (not entirely clear, listening to interpretation on the fly, but about migration)
5: majority voting on common foreign and security policy. #SOU2019 @DipPoliticheUE
Originally posted as a thread of 4 tweets on Twitter on 2 May 2019. View the original thread.