Hulot and Chérèque demand a fresh EU policy

Environmentalist Nicolas Hulot and union leader François Chérèque argue in the daily Le Monde that the EU must make social and environmental policy its main goal in order to overcome its institutional crisis: "At a time when energy, food, climate, finance and social crises are combining in dangerous ways and claiming an increasing number of victims, we need Europe more than ever. But Europe is going through its own crisis. ... Whatever one may think about the very heterogeneous reasons for the Irish No to the Treaty of Lisbon, it nevertheless once more underscores the EU's institutional deficit. ... As it is today, the EU inspires less and less desire to join it. ... This democratic objection must be heeded. ... We must give a democratic answer to the institutional crisis, and the key lies in an ambitious ecological and social policy. This must form the backbone and the motor for European unity. In other words, the EU should once more attach importance to ... the noblest values, namely solidarity between individuals, peoples and generations."

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