Macron to Deliver Vision for EU Democracy in Athens
- A new European World leader appears. He goes by the name: Emmanuel (“god” with us) Macron. He wants to rule like Jupiter (Greek: Zeus) the Roman god. He wants to unite Europe into a Superstate: United States of Europe. Am I suspicious? YES!
– - Macron to Deliver Vision for EU Democracy in Athens
by https://www.euractiv.com/
President Emmanuel Macron will this week unveil his vision for European reform in Athens. On the menu is the eurozone, transnational lists for 50 MEPs and democratic conventions, whose results are expected ahead of the next EU elections. EURACTIV France reports.
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Macron’s trip to Greece this Thursday and Friday (7-8 September) is dripping with symbolism. Beyond visiting his 12th EU head of state in ten days, the French president will talk about Europe.
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For this, he has chosen the Pynx hill, where the citizens of ancient Greece discussed democracy and governance. And where Socrates gave his lessons.
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Athens, for Macron, is the “symbol of our collective errors”: the debt crisis; the eurozone crisis, which has seen growth stagnate for ten years; and the crisis of democracy, which is reflected in the decision made by non-representative institutions. Europe’s poor management of this series of crises is its failure. From the sale of the port of Piraeus to Chinese investors to the chaotic management of the refugee crisis, Greece is the epitome of the “polycrisis”.
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But Macron has a plan.
On the question of the economy, the French president is not the saviour Greece has been hoping for. Cautious to keep good relations with Berlin, Macron is not travelling to Athens bearing gifts to help the struggling economy through its loan repayments.
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But he will talk about his plan for eurozone reform: a common European budget. The EU’s southern member states have been enthusiastic about the idea so far, keen to recover some budgetary breathing space, which they have cruelly lacked since the crisis.
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