"The economic situation is worsening from month to month, and unemployment
has reached a level that puts democratic structures ever more in doubt. The Germans have not yet realized that southern Europe, including France,
will be forced by their current misery to fight back against German hegemony
sooner or later," he said, blaming much of the crisis on Germany's wage squeeze
to gain export share. Mr. Lafontaine said on the parliamentary website of Germany's Left Party that
Chancellor Angela Merkel will "awake from her self-righteous slumber" once the
countries in trouble unite to force a change in crisis policy at Germany's
expense.
His prediction appeared confirmed as French finance minister Pierre Moscovici
yesterday proclaimed the end of austerity and a triumph of French policy,
risking further damage to the tattered relations between Paris and Berlin.
"Austerity is finished. This is a decisive turn in the history of the EU
project since the euro," he told French TV. "We're seeing the end of austerity
dogma. It's a victory of the French point of view."....Nigel Farage has been predicting this for several years now, not based on
emotion, but clear calculated logic (listen to some of his speeches from a few
years ago). The EU was always a French & German club which others were allowed to
join strictly on their terms. The most striking is the CAP, which always was and
always will be EU wide support for inefficient French farmers. Never mind scrap the Euro and save the southern Mediterranean countries,
scrap the EU altogether and save 500 million people from any more
nightmares...
Where are the pro EU trolls today? Have they nothing to say about these
devastating comments from Mr. Lafontaine?
Perhaps they are busy consoling themselves that Mr. Lafontaine is just a clown
or a fruitcake and can be safely ridiculed and ignored?
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Some of our major partners in Europe have already said that Britain can't 'cherrypick' what it wants in the EU. The Germans have also said that they can manage Fiscal Union without a new Treaty, which makes it rather difficult to bargain for change
David Cameron has said he wont do anything 'that jeopardises our membership of the EU', and we can believe him since his cast-iron guarantee of a Referendum on Lisbon melted despite the Czech leader offering to delay ratification for him to keep his promise. He also secretly agreed to bailout the Euro during the 2010 Election with billions of taxpayers money, contrary to the ban on bailouts in the Lisbon Treaty, and subsequently dropped the Labour and Conservative red lines from the original Constitutional Treaty on debt-sharing, and then resurrected the EU Security Agenda in the form of the Communications Data Bill, despite opposing it before the last Election. Perhaps the promise of new legislation on cyberspace in yesterday's Queen's Speech will be a new disguise.
Europe has been based on 'ever closer union' since the beginning. The formulation of 'political and economic union' has been repeated in all of the major Treaties since. Staying in the EU means 'ever closer union'. I don't think our partners will compromise on that, but you can try David?
Just to be fair to all voters, David, perhaps you could also consult those who might like re-negotiation to lead to a more honest and accountable Europe, because we're not all anti-European, rather than just repatriating some wage-lowering powers from Brussels?
I doubt Cameron will survive his Eurosceptics, this looks like his long overdue response to an emboldened UKIP, too little to late, they are far to powerful for Cameron to reign in, Farage will slaughter him.The bright young thing hasn't got what it takes to take on his enemies, of which there are many, not least Murdoch it's a shame really i was hoping to see him suffer in 2015, but people are now being sentenced for their part in the hacking at NOW. If he survives, it it will be a miracle and will show us up for the shamocracy we are. who'd have thought it The leader of the Country v Cameron ;-)
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