Jean-Claude Juncker suggests 'different orbit' for some EU states
The European Union's Commission chief has used the 25th anniversary of the summit that reinforced the goal of an ever-closer union to lambast some member states that refuse to apply common rules.
Jean-Claude Juncker said the bloc needs to rethink a looser relation for those not fully committed to the common cause.
Mr Juncker acknowledged that a quarter of a century after the Maastricht Treaty on tightly knit unity, Britain and others had changed conditions to the extent that he was considering a system where some, beyond a primary group of nations, would be in "a different orbit" to remain linked up but not necessarily close.
The 28-nation EU has been rocked by the British exit referendum, and acrimonious relations with some eastern members on migration and constitutional law.
