TBILISI (Sputnik) — All the EU treaties should be redrafted to focus more on people’s needs in order to keep the European project alive following Britain’s decision to leave the bloc, a member of the Italian delegation to OSCE PA told Sputnik on the sidelines of the OSCE PA annual meeting in Tbilisi.
"In order to keep the EU project alive, we need to redraft all the treaties. Politicians need to be close to people and not to the offices in Brussels," Guglielmo Picchi, who is also a vice president of the OSCE PA general committee on political affairs and security, said.
"If the EU will continue on that path, it will lead to the increased number of people supporting euro-skeptical movements. They may use the UK example to encourage in their countries an idea of holding similar referendums," he said.
On June 23, the United Kingdom held a referendum to determine whether or not the country should leave the European Union. According to the final results, 51.9 percent of voters, or 17.4 million people, decided to support Brexit, while about 16.1 million opposed it.
