Brussels has become inefficient and very bureaucratic, which makes it slow to do things. The concept of the United States of Europe will never work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
When I look at the chaotic and volatile debate right now, both in Germany and around the world, my impression and concern is that the daily barrage of proposals and political statements is making markets and consumers even more nervous. Still, Brussels is pressing for a joint European approach.
The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.
At the same time the Constitution sets in stone the Stability Pact and risks preventing member States from implementing a policy of growth. So we are not able to do things at the European or the national level.
The U.K. and Ireland are like-minded on E.U. matters, and the process of working together in Brussels has built an immense store of knowledge, personal relationships, and trust between our governments.
People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
As Tony Blair has made clear, our fundamental challenge is how to make Europe work better.
Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.
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