Time to deepen European integration

There is never going to be a United States of Europe, but the EU needs to show its partners where it is heading if it wants to be taken seriously, EU commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said Monday (16 March).

 
“We have to deepen economic and monetary union for a simple reason: Our monetary union is not optimal. We have an independent central bank. But we don’t have a European government. So we have to have rules to replace the non-existent European government,” said Juncker.

 

He indicated that simple facts on the ground may soon leave the EU without the luxury of debating where it wants to go and its position in the world.

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