Conference on the Future of Europe today "in a subdued ceremony designed to have as few people as possible notice it’s happening"
Via @MehreenKhn
Far cry from the Laeken declaration, showing how moribund & subterranean EU federalism has become
amp.ft.com/content/231dcd…
Via @MehreenKhn
Far cry from the Laeken declaration, showing how moribund & subterranean EU federalism has become
amp.ft.com/content/231dcd…
The merit of the last convention was that it was at least constitutional meaning it was openly declared in a mega-treaty and then rejected by voters, mothballed after French and Dutch voters. Before being enacted as Lisbon treaty without votes
This exercise does not even have the merit of a constitutional aim and expresses the EU's dismal zeitgeist rather well as the private property of declining and accountability dodging elites who eschew vision because that invloves public politics
It is a great pity because Europe needs an open and rigorous debate on the EU's future rather than this carnival of low expectations and evasiveness. @guyverhofstadt would have been the man, that he was sidelined is very telling
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