If not now, when?

By Thu Nguyen and Nils Redeker

Thu Nguyen and Nils Redeker from the Jacques Delors Centre

Last week, the Conference on the future of Europe was concluded. Now far-reaching reform proposals are on the table. The risk that these will amount to nothing is great. The Russian war of aggression shows how urgently the EU needs reforms. The German government should therefore seize the opportunities offered by the conference.

With quite a bombastic and at times slightly weird plenary, the Conference on the Future of Europe officially ended last week. For one year, 800 randomly selected citizens had discussed necessary reforms for the EU. Now they are calling for changes, some of them far-reaching, such as the end of the unanimity principle in EU foreign and security policy, more financial resources for the EU, and a stronger role for the European Parliament.

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