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EU Parliament, Commission + Council point at Federal Integration after Sarkozy-Merkel call

Parašė ACM
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

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In a rare joint, dynamic move, most Top EU Personalities from the European Parliament, Commission and Council urged to  resolutely advance towards a Federal type Integration at Top Political level, during today's landmark debate in Strasbourg's Plenary session on €uroZone's Economy, shortly after French President Sarkozy's and German Chancellor Merkel's recent call to boost €uroZone's Political Leadership and core Integration, (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the Franco-German Summit of 16/8/2011) :

- "Europe needs a "Bing-Bang", call it "Federation of the United States of Europe" or "Integration", stressed from the outset the Chairman of the Greatest Group of MEPs, ChristianDemocrats/EPP, French MEP Joseph Daul.


+ "We must prepare now a Unity and a Vision for the next 4 or 5 Years", i.e. 2012-2017. "Meanwhile, EU Countries should deal with the proble of Debts", and "€uroZone must be reinforced, as the Heart which stimulates creation and development in Europe", Daul added.


Yesterday, Daul had stressed his Trust to EU's Strategy out of the Global Crisis, which was focused on Investing for Innovation due to augment Competitivness, contrary to the USA, which prefered to fund Consumption, even by aggravating its Debt : Something which wouldn't work if People lost their trust to the existing Economic system, restricting expenses... (+Meanwhile, the publication of Statistics revealing  that the number of Poor People in the USA had reached proportions seen only in a remote Past, appeared to stress further the seriousness of that warning for the current trends in the American economy).

But also EU needs now strongly Unified Policies on Budgets, Fiscal and even Social Rules, etc, as Daul had underlined.

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 - The move was supported by the Chairman of the Liberal Group, former Prime Minister of Belgium, Guy Verhofstadt, who went even further, asking a "Federal" structure, €uroZone Heads of State/Governments' Summits "not only twice per Year" (as the Sarkozy - Merkel proposal), "but twice a Week", as he characteristically said, with "EuroBonds", a "Growth Pact", and the "Stability Pact" recently prepared, but with "Automatic Sanctions" and EU Commission in charge, not EU Member States, as he said.


+ Verhofstadt denounced what he called "the (Historic) Mistake to make a Single Currency wih 27 Different Economic and Fiscal policies" in €uroZone, (apparently forgetting the fact that, even those EU Politicians who had created the €uro Common Currency, had already Warned from the Start that the move was due to provoke reactions from the People, pushing them to Ask for an EU Economic Government, as MEPs had anounced as early as since 1995, during a landmark Debate on EU's Future in the World in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, that "EuroFora"s co-founder had covered for the Press)...

- Even if at variance, mainly concerning current EU Economy's current chances, the Chairman of the Socialist Group, German MEP Martin Schultz, also asked for much "more Unity".
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- "It's clear hat we (EU) need a Deeper Integration of our Economic and Budgetary policies", anounced also from the start EU Commission's President, Jose Barroso, reiterating, f.ex. "Proposals to introduce EuroBonds", etc., and asking "futher Economic and Political Integration".


- "This Crisis is the consequence of Competitiveness problems", Barroso found, while also asking from MEPs, for the moment, also to "deal with the Debt problem" and to "Buid a Strong Economy,without need for Fiscal or other Stimulus", as he said.
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+ "The curent Institutional Structures are not enough : We need a New "Federative moment"", stressed also EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Policy, Oli Rehn from Finland.


- In view of "more Economic and Political Integration", and while "the main thing is Monitoring of Fiscal Policies", etc., "EU Parliament is to play a particularly "useful role", thanks to its interface vis a vis EU Citizens', found Rehn.

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+ The main thrust of the move was apparently supported rather strongly also from EU Council's collective side of 27 Heads of State:Government, since Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski, the current rotating EU Chairman, also launched, yesterday afternoon, a vibrant call to face the Crisis by resolutely heading towards more EU Integration, in the same way as European People used to "build huge Cathedrals" in History : "They started to build them, even before they might have a definitive idea about what they might look like when the overall Building will be completed in the future", as Komorowski characteristically and wisely said, attracting large applause from MEPs.. 

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However, the 1st Key EU Politician to start launching a crystal-clear call for a "Federal" Europe in the present period, was, many Months earlier, the experienced Italian Minister of Economy, Tremonti, at the conclusion of an International Conference on "New World, New Global Governance", organized on January 2011 in Paris (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from that event) :  - "The Global Financial movements have passed over the current National structures, and, therefore, we need to advance today towards a Federal Europe, which will be able to face them efficiently", had stressed then Tremonti in reply to an "EuroFora"s question on the "main substance" of his message to the Annual Conference, attended also by several Nobel Prize Winners Economists from all over the World... 



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    - Meanwhile, Chairman Daul had warned to pay due attention to Financial "Marksts" who "are volatile, Sensitive to the slightest Rumours", as he said.

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    In this regard, after meeting, yesterday Night in Strasbourg with Itialian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, (who spoke also with EU Commission's President Barroso, and EU Parliamnet's President Buzek), Daul stressed to Journalists including "EuroFora", that he found oisitive the fact that Berlusconi had reportedly prepared a set of strong measures to be adopted by the National Parliament in Rome, and had no reasons to doubt that he will, indeed, monitor also their implementation.


    - Berlusconi, reportedly stressed to Italian Journalists, that the only problems that Italy's Economy had faced were, in fact, "inherited" from the Past, when some Socialist Governments were responsible, but that "the Fundamentals" of Italy's Economy were "Positive", and it had a "Solid" structure, needing just to "Modernize" by legislative Reforms the "Tools" used to govern it.

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(NDLR : "DraftNews", as already sent earlier to "EuroFora"s Subscribers/Donors. A Complete and more Accurate,  Final Version is due asap).


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Speaking exclusively to "EuroFora", the New EU Parliament's President, former Polish Prime Minister, ChristianDemocrat/EPP MEP Jerzy Busek, welcomed proposals by EuroFora about innovative ways for EU Citizens to attend EU debates before important final decisions which affect people's lives.

- "We (EU Parliament) must be transparent", Buzek stressed from the outset.  "We must have clear answers also for delicate questions. If we don't touch a problem, you must know why, and when shall we decide in the nearest future".. "Because "we (EU) must think about Europeans, first of all : They don't understand well what is going on in the EU. So, it's our duty to inform them, to make discussions here more interesting".

"EuroFora" congratulated President Buzek for the anouncement he made, from the 1st day of his election in Strasbourg (on Tuesday, 14 July 2009), on his intention to make  transparent debates, exchanges of views, etc. before the final adoption of decisions in EU Parliament's Plenary, when issues are evolving inside Committees, (See earlier publication).

And we reminded, in this regard, that "EuroFora" has been advocating a project for EU Citizens' active involvement in pluralist EU debates before important EU decisions, since more than a Decade : 1997-2007+

- "Thank you. We (EU Parliament), indeed, have exciting debates", Buzek replied. But, in practice, "without a possibility for our Citizens to see them, not even by the Press, the Radio or TV, etc., because it is in Committees", he regreted.

- "But, they (i.e. Media, Citizens, etc) might interact with you, with MEPs, etc, May be we can imagine something", "EuroFora" proposed.

- "Yes, (but) it needs, a quite new idea", Buzed observed.

- "Why not through some innovations ?", "EuroFora" suggested.

- "Innovation ? That's it. Fantastic  New Information Technologies !", Buzek realized.

- "Precisely, "EuroFora" has such a project, since more than a Decade (1997-2009), to use new technologies for public debates before major EU decisions are taken", we reminded.

- "If you have such proposals, please come to us, come to us. We must" do something, agreed the new EU Parliamen's President.

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    This fits with Buzek's main stance, expressed at EU Parliament's plenary earlier this week in Strasbourg, that the European Union must succeed to overcome a "Crisis of Trust" vis a vis EU Citizens. (See previous EuroFora publication).

    For that purpose, obviously information and debates are valuable, but purely instrumental, procedural means which can help focus on, and highlight a substantial content, attractive to EU Citizens, which needs to be determined by other, political, and not mediatic factors.  

    Buzek spoke about the urgent need to overcome the Global Economic Crisis,  the struggle for Human and Civic Rights, Democracy, etc., the Eastern Partnership, links with Russia, strategic partnership with USA and emerging countries, etc.

    But he also used (while speaking both to "EuroFora" and other Media) the expression : "The Europeans", for EU Citizens. This points right towards what several important EU leaders (including French President Sarkozy, German Chancellor Merkel, etc) have started to highlight particularly during the recent years : That there is a vital need, and an historic opportunity, for the development of a European Conscience, to stimulate e renaissance of a European Identity able to attract Popular support, for the EU to become a strong player in a Multopolar World : In other words, the revitalisation of a project for a "Political Europe".

    By a coincidence, this was indirectly but surely reminded, earlier in Strasbourg, by another ... Busek (this time with a "s") : 

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    Speaking to more than 650 participants from CoE's member countries, at the conclusion of the 2009 Summer University of its Political Schools, Erhard Busek, (with an "s"), former vice-Chancellor of Austria and EU Coordinator for South-Eastern Europe, pointed at the current need to revitalize Europe's "Identity", forged by Greek philosophy and Roman Law, Christian values and Enlightment's ideas, etc. through the ages.     

- "We have almost the same name with Jerzy Buzek (EU Parliament's new President, who is a former Polish Prime Minister), because both our Families come ...from  the same village, located at the Heart of Europe, which was often shared between Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. But my family emmigrated a long time ago to Austria, while Jerzy Buzek's family remained in Poland", explained f. vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek to "EuroFora".   

 An astonishingly concrete and simple example of European Integration from the grassroots : Starting by EU Citizens, i.e. those "Europeans", that EU Parliament's new President, Jerzy Buzek (this time with a "z"), wants to bring alongside MEP's decision-making proces, (according to "EuroFora"'s main idea : Comp. supra)...

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