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Tuesday, March 23, 1999 Published at 16:36 GMT
Can the European Union heal itself?
The European Union is a mess. It is intentionally undemocratic and unaccountable
Austin Spreadbury, UK
Worse things have happened in every democracy on the planet so why don't the Eurosceptics take a step back and make a rational attempt to take in the facts.
P N Werner, Luxembourg
The Background:
Going, but not forgotten - where now for the disgraced Euro-institutions?
The Berlin summit was to be the crowning glory of Germany's EU presidency, the summit which redrew the budget and paved the way for enlargement.
But now the EU must also grapple with the worst crisis since its inception - and the horse-trading over who should head the new Commission has already begun.
Is the European Parliament strong enough to weather the coming crises - or was its flexing of muscles just a flash in the pan?
Your Reaction:
Worse things have happened in every democracy on the planet (and indeed in most Tory governments) so why don't the Eurosceptics stop their manic outbursts of "I told you so" , take a step back and make a rational attempt to take in the facts.
The European Union is a mess. It is intentionally
undemocratic and unaccountable. Its proponents in
the European political elite want to create
something akin to a single state, by steadily
accrediting power at the centre at the expense of
accountable national governments and their
electorates.
The result is mountains of regulation, uniformity
for its own sake, and the inevitable trampling of
national interests and sensibilities. To top
it all, every decision is dogged by unedifying
squabbles and horse-trading over who gets what.
And what do we actually gain from being part of
all this? No-one seems actually to be able to
answer that question.
If the EU is not to collapse under the weight of its
own contradictions, then it needs radical surgery,
to change it back to the free-trade area we thought
we were joining in the 1970s. If that's not on
offer, and it seems that it isn't, then we should
definitely get out now.
P N Werner, Luxembourg
Austin Spreadbury, United Kingdom
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