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have run their course but there is no sign of a replacement. This creates a
gap that the new populist parties – primarily of the right but also of the
left – have sought to exploit with anti-European formulae and the false
promise of closed borders. The results include Brexit and the democratic
crises in Poland and Hungary.
The EU needs a revitalised project, a relaunch – as the title of this
Report suggests – because it is the best thing to have happened to gen-
erations of Europeans. This Report therefore puts forward a range of ideas
for this relaunch. The EU has to regain its leadership by offering the poli-
cies that the continent, and the world, needs. It must create a specific
proposal, with immediate commitments, that has the power to convince
Europeans.