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Vasco Graça Moura on his EU disappointment
Writing in the daily Diário de Notícias Vasco Graça Moura, a social democratic MEP since 1999, describes his disappointment with the EU: "We are utterly impotent from a military point of view. We can't defend our industrial or economic interests against the competition from Asia. Owing to the diverging interests of the member countries we are not truly united. Veiled nationalism and protectionism are rife. … Should it ever come into effect, the Lisbon Treaty will benefit the 'stronger' states and their allies. And it won't resolve the conflicts triggered by the most recent EU enlargement [the accession of Bulgaria and Romania], which only aggravated and multiplied the EU's problems. Moreover the treaty will create a pseudo-federalism that contradicts the ruling of the German constitutional court. To sum up: This is a Europe … that runs the risk of further weakening the EU Commission when the latter should in fact be the motor of EU development."
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Europe's success
"It is obvious that the verdict after 50 years of the EU is largely positive", states the Portuguese MEP Vasco Graça Moura. "The sentiment shared by convinced Europeans, myself included, that certain things should be working better is synonymous with a certain 'Eurofustration'. ... We must admit that the whole machine is heavy: 27 governments represented in the council, 27 commissioners, 785 MEPs ... . Europe has yet to find a way of balancing identities and national interests on the one hand with a marked change in these institutions on the other. In the same way, it is still running after a system that would guarantee its own sufficient funds. Any attempt to resolve these problems with reinforced cooperation between certain Member States, as some of the most powerful countries wish, would quite simply mean introducing a multi-speed Europe, with different standards, thus exacerbating asymmetry and penalising the weak."
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