The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.
The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger.
The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
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.
The euro must be defended, or uncertainty about the European Union will be widespread.
The euro area must not be treated as an 'opt out' from the European Union.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.