EU Should Concentrate on Citizens' Affairs, Not Institutions - Polish PM

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said that the European Union should start focusing more on citizens' affairs, and less on the affairs of institutions.

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.

Earlier in the day, the leaders of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or the Visegrad Group (V4), met in Warsaw to discuss the prospects for EU development and ways for the bloc to function better, particularly in the wake of Brexit.

"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.