Le Journal du Dimanche printed a loyal address made by President Hollande to Jacques Delors on the occasion of the old emperor’s nintieth birthday.
Here are some extracts, translated by me and Messieurs Google et Bing:
“Because Europe can only advance if it carries the idea of transcendence. No nation can contemplate giving up part of its sovereignty if it is not satisfied that it will emerge stronger from this process. He [Delors] intuited that out of the crisis, Europe needs to define a new horizon that can give rise to a new hope, because he knows that the European idea runs out of steam when it is no longer put into action.”
“What threatens us is not too much Europe but too little.”
“The eurozone has managed this week to reaffirm its cohesion with Greece.
The quality of the Franco-German relationship had a great deal to do with it. The European spirit prevailed. But we cannot stop there. I have offered to take forward Jacques Delors’s idea for a Government of the euro area with the addition of a specific budget and thus also a Parliament to ensure democratic control.”
Found via Bloomberg and the Drudge Report. The French original can be seen at the first link. Is he really saying what I think he’s saying? A unified Eurozone government?
From the original article.
Oui.
Of course he is. It’s been the whole idea from the start. Jean Monnet called the Coal and Steel Community “the provisional government of Europe” back in the ’50s before calmer heads played that aspect down. A unified – not federal, unified – government of the entire continent has always been the goal. (Monnet would be horrified at le contrôle démocratique mind you, but that’s detail.)
The idea that the EU is a free-trade area gone wrong is part of the smoke-and-mirrors routine. On the contrary, it’s (as Booker and North put it) a “slow-motion coup d’etat” coming worryingly close to going right.
Just getting everything ready to become The Caliphate (Europe) when the immigrants replace the new Parliament by force. By then, most will be ok with getting ANYTHING but Parliament in control.
Enjoy!
What Sam said… with knobs on.
Doubling down on a lost cause doesn’t make you prudent, it just proves that you’re godamned stupid. Unfortunatly, the only thing “Greece” will ever understand is crashing, burning and eventually rebuilding after it’s snapped out of it’s psychosis. That’s unfortunate since there are undoubtedly a lot of innocent and naive people in the middle of this shit. Throwing money at a junkie is not only goddamned stupid, it’s harmful to the junkie. The IMF and “europe” is enabling fucking idiocy, and they deserve what they get, more waste, more sandbagging and more corruption and more bankrupsy.
Yes – most E.U. governments (including that of France) support a “country called Europe” with its own government.
This is not news – it is the basic point of the E.U. “project” (ever-closer-union).
And British politicians who pretend otherwise (who pretend that they can get real powers back from the E.U.) are LIARS.
Ultimately the EMU can’t work with monetary policy decided in Brussels and fiscal policy set at the member state level. That was always its Achilles heel, and the whole thing never made sense without far closer ties.
I still don’t see how they’re going to make a “United States of Europe” work without using enormous sums of French and German money to smooth things over in Southern Europe. Will the voters tolerate that? I have my doubts.
Will the voters be asked if they would tolerate that? I have my doubts. :-0
‘Printing’ the required money via the ECB is the easy way to by-pass the voters.
Hopefully Mr Delors makes it to 100 and beyond so he can see the gradual collapse of his dream.
I’m hoping that there will be nothing gradual about its collapse.
“And British politicians who pretend otherwise (who pretend that they can get real powers back from the E.U.) are LIARS.”
Or idiots. As always, it’s hard to tell.