Posted by The European Union in its present form is threatened with failure, Bernard Guetta writes in the daily Libération.
Bernard Guetta
What the EU lacks is political unity and democratic rules, he says:
“The EU could fall apart tomorrow.
… It could very quickly go down in history as a missed opportunity. What threatens the EU most is that its people can no longer follow what is going on. Neither on the right nor or the left does the public understand this thing anymore, and no-one knows who is leading it. The apparatus is complicated, functions poorly, and European citizens are right in having the feeling that they can’t control its decisions and cannot punish it via the ballot box. Today the EU brings together too many countries – countries that are too different from one another in terms of development and political culture for them to be able to plan the future.
… An effort must be made to save this creative Utopia by reorganising European democracy. In the European elections the European parties should be discussing real programmes. The winner should be able to advance his candidate as President of the Commission. Then the EU Commission would become a government … of a political union of Europe.”
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