Comments on: “Une sorte de maladie de langueur, de fatigue gÃƒÂ©nÃƒÂ©ralisÃƒÂ©e”

By: chris

chris — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:36:28 +0000

To paraphrase Ms Colonna the EU is bad, people don’t like it, so lets have more of it.

1%-2% of GDP might be too small a sum to try and organise the industry of Europe, but then why would you want to? All previous experiments, at the national and transnational level, in organising industry for by some predefined plan have all ended in failure when compared to just stepping backing and letting the market deal with it. Personally I would not like to see any increase in the EU’s budget until it can at least account for where the money that it currently spends goes.

By: Colman

Colman — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:41:32 +0000

I still think that a lot of the problems are traceable not to the EU but to the national politicians that use it for their own ends, taking credit for the good stuff it does and claiming their hands are tied when it does something unpopular.

By: European Tribune

European Tribune — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:37:49 +0000

Old and tired Europe…

Nosemonkey writes about FranceÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s Minister for European Affairs, Catherine Colonna, comments about the state of the EU. She claimed that the Union was “suffering from a s……