MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The European Union should return to its roots and concentrate on the affairs of its citizens, rather than institutions, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said on Thursday.
"We agreed that the European Union is valuable to us, Europeans. [It is] something precious that we should protect, that we must develop, but which we also need to change… We agree that the EU should return to its roots. It should start focusing more on citizens' affairs, and less on the affairs of institutions," Szydlo said following the V4 meeting, as quoted by the Polska Televize.
The prime minister said that the participants in the meeting discussed areas of the European Union that should be changed or improved.
Szydlo also touched upon the agenda of the informal EU summit to be held in September in Bratislava, Slovakia, and said that the V4 would like to be well-prepared for the summit.