Slovak president joins sceptics on European Parliament

The Slovak president has joined Czech and Finnish colleagues in calling for a major overhaul of the European Parliament

Speaking to German daily Die Welt, Ivan Gasparovic suggested the European Parliament in its current form was a "mammoth" and should rather consist of national MPs.

"I see the biggest problem [as being] in the relationship between the European Parliament and national parliaments", he said, adding that having MEPs who also sit in national assemblies would mean that...