Delors points the finger at Europe’s ‘killers’

 
Euractiv.com
29 March 2012
 
Jacques Delors, the former European Commission president widely seen as one of the ‘fathers of Europe’, said yesterday (28 March) that EU leaders were “killing Europe”, replacing the community method by inter-governmental solutions and nationalism, with the complicity of the Union’s institutions.

The long-serving Commission president (1985-1994) attacked European Council President Herman Van Rompuy for not defending the community method, and EU leaders for “completely destroying the heritage of the fathers of Europe”.

He also took aim at the European Commission and its president, José Manuel Barroso, for its lack of initiative and for playing the “pyromaniac fireman” on the eurozone crisis.

Among the EU’s national leaders, he pointed the finger at French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Delors made these statements in the European Parliament, where he gave his backing to an appeal “For a European Socialist Alternative“, which he said represented “an offensive of Social Democracy in the broader sense”.

Speaking to a like-minded audience, Delors said that the European Council, which brings together the EU heads of states and government, was “morally responsible” for the economic crisis.

Delors said that in recent years, the European method had been “disguised”, marking a return to the 1814-1815 Congress of Vienna, and to the “cynicism” of nationalistic power play.

“If we go this way, it means that someone wants to kill Europe, that it should not exist and should not have existed in the first place,” he said.

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