EU Law Blog

This last weekend, the Austrian Presidency of the EU held a conference on the future of Europe called The Sound of Europe. The BBC interviewed some of the participants. Some commented that the event was elitist. This is an ongoing problem for the EU, that many EU citizens seem to feel that the development of the EU and those who are involved in it don’t have much to do with their lives (at least, not in any positive way). This week the Commission will publish its Communications White Paper which has been in preparation for some time and is supposed to show how the gap between the EU and its citizens can be bridged.