Getty Martin Schulz has proposed a new EU superstate

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Martin Schulz has said it was time for a "genuine European government" to replace the unelected European Commission. The parliament's president said an elected government who would have to answer to the European parliament would "make for more transparent political accountability at the EU level". That way, dissatisfied EU citizens could "replace one European government with another through elections", he wrote in Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.

EU citizens could replace one European government with another through elections Martin Schulz

Brexit has been blamed on both Mr Schulz and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker by several members. The pair have faced multiple resignation calls since the EU referendum over their insistence on pushing for speedy further integration.

Getty Mr Schulz plans would mean more EU laws being decided at national level

And German Prime Minister Angela Merkel may even push out Mr Juncker within a year, it emerged over the weekend. Mr Schulz said his plans for a European government do not mean just "more Europe" as he called for a clear separation of powers between an overarching federal government and member states.

Sounding very much like the model used in the United States of America, he said Brussels should not interfere in issues which can be regulated at national level - something Brexit campaigners have called on for years. He wrote: "We must clearly define what citizens can and must expect in certain areas of the EU."

Getty The EU Commission would be elected under Mr Schulz's plan

Getty The new model would see the Parliament, shown here, as an upper chamber to the Commission

The European parliament should also have a second chamber made up of representatives of member states, like the US Senate or Germany's Bundesrat. Support for Mr Schulz's proposals is unlikely post-Brexit, with France and Italy calling for further integration after the referendum result.

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Mrs Merkel is thought to be taking a more cautious approach. And Sigmar Gabriel, German vice-Chancellor and leader of Mr Schulz's Social Democrat Party (SPD), called for the role of Brussels bureaucrats to be minimised not strengthened.