EU has lost favour with citizens, commission president warns

Jean-Claude Juncker told a meeting of the Council of Europe -- not an EU body -- in Strasbourg that people were "stepping away" from the EU, which he said had "lost a part of its attractiveness".

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European commissions had been "wrong to over-regulate and interfere too much in the lives of our citizens", he said, stressing that the EU's current executive was trying to cut new legislation to a minimum.