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Europe should create a new class of supranational MEPs after Brexit in order to demonstrate that the European project is alive and kicking, a high-level EU ministers meeting was told on Thursday.

Under the new plan, the 73 British seats in the European Parliament that will fall vacant after Brexit will be transformed into new seats representing a a single European constituency, according toa document submitted to EUs General Affairs Council in Strasbourg.

The proposal over how to re-allocate the seats, which was tabled by the Italian foreign minister and has been seen by The Daily Telegraph, would enable all the the European political families to contend them on a trans-national basis.

In the past, efforts by federalists to create EU-wide MEPs have been shot down as unrealistic by EU member states, but the Italian paper says that Brexit now provides the perfect opportunity to revive the scheme.

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