Guy Verhofstadt: “After Brexit, populists no longer speak of ‘exit’. For the EU it is time for a turning point”

FIESOLE – “It is a crucial moment”. Guy Verhofstadt seems to have no doubts, his gaze reveals more than words: the experiment of having citizens write pieces of the future of the European Union, lead them to elaborate concrete proposals to be submitted to the Twenty-Seven, with which the EU institutions will be obliged to do the math, it can work. It has to work. It is a first step towards a directly participatory democracy that can change the way Europeans look at their institutions.