Filling the Holes That Brexit Exposed

EU member states agree that the political and economic status quo in the bloc needs to change, but they cannot agree on how. The Brexit vote has made the need to reform the bloc, fight Euroskepticism across the Continent and prevent countries from exiting the union more urgent than ever. The leader of Poland's ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, made headlines recently when he said Poland was working on a new EU treaty that would allow members' national parliaments to repatriate powers from Brussels. Others are pushing reforms as well. French President Francois Hollande will visit several EU members next week to discuss reforms, and Slovakia will host a summit in September on the bloc's future after Brexit. Treaty change is out of the question in the current political environment, but at some point, EU members will have to face the difficult question of how to reform the bloc....