Let’s Create a ‘United States of Europe’, Says German Leader
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- Let’s Create a ‘United States of Europe’, Says German Leader
by Nick Miller, http://www.smh.com.au/
A new, take-it-or-leave-it “United States of Europe” is the best answer to the political and economic woes facing the continent, Martin Schulz, the head of Germany’s Social Democrats said on Thursday.
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Schulz, chancellor Angela Merkel’s last best hope for forming a stable German coalition government, proposed replacing the EU with a United States of Europe by 2025.
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He told a party convention in Berlin that under his plan there would be a new treaty to create a federal Europe, with centralised control of domestic and foreign security, tax and monetary affairs, asylum and international development. Citizens across Europe would help draft the constitutional treaty.
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If member states didn’t agree they would “simply leave the EU” Schulz said, adding that Poland was systematically undermining European values, and Hungary was increasingly isolating itself.
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The “USE” would be “no threat to its member states, but a beneficial addition”, said Schulz, who was president of the European Parliament from 2012 to 2017 before his underwhelming attempt to oust Merkel in the recent German election.
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