Jean-Claude Juncker faces dissent over EU survival blueprint

‘Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, will launch a blueprint for Europe’s survival after Brexit amid growing dissent from poorer eastern states over plans to deepen EU integration.
The plan, which will be presented in a white paper at the European Parliament on Wednesday will set out five “pathways to unity” for the 27 member states who will remain in Europe after Britain leaves in 2019.
The proposals have already met opposition from recalcitrant eastern EU states, led by Poland and Hungary, who fear that they will be marginalised by a new drive to revitalise Europe’s Franco-German federalist core.’
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