Dawn of Federal EU: MEP Demands Dictatorial BAN on Countries Opting Out of EU Rules. Massive Push Towards a Unified European State: United States of Europe
- Dawn of Federal EU: MEP Demands Dictatorial BAN on Countries Opting Out of EU Rules
by NICK GUTTERIDGE, http://www.express.co.uk/
BRUSSELS should respond to the Brexit vote with a federalist crackdown on dissenting member states and a drive for total political union, a leading MEP has said.
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In a controversial intervention former Belgian prime minister and eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt called for EU leaders to ban countries from being able to opt out of unpopular measures like the Schengen zone and the Euro.
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Bizarrely the MEP, who leads the main liberal party in the European Parliament, believes that the rise of euroscepticisim across the continent is actually a sign that people want more diktats from Brussels.
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Mr Verhofstadt – a longstanding and vocal critic of Britain – said bureaucrats “cannot defend” the status quo and called for a massive push towards a unified European state. He said: “Today, we are sleepwalking towards a disaster, towards another 27 referenda ending the European Union. The Union must change, or it will die.”
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His comments put him at odds with even the most ardent arch-federalists in Brussels including EU chief Jean-Claude Juncker, who recently claimed he is “not an advocate for a United States of Europe”.
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The heavyweight Belgian politician has released a draft report on the future direction of the EU project in which he calls for a redrawing of the treaties to crack down on what Mr Juncker has called “part-time Europeans”.
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In it he proposes watering down the powers of individual countries and boosting the influence of the Commission and the Parliament, arguing that the current model cannot deliver “decisive results”. And he advocates banning the kind of special dispensation enjoyed by countries like Britain from the most controversial Brussels measures, like the free movement zone and the single currency.
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