A way out of Europe's impasse

The weekly magazine Expresso proposes a way out of the impasse in which Europe finds itself after the Irish rejection of the EU Reform Treaty: "The European Union is an excellent idea, but the Europeans make it impossible to implement. ... Everything has been tried ... apart from the most difficult alternative: facing the facts and changing our approach lock, stock and barrel. The European Union is an absolutely unique project in human history. An unprecedented step was taken with the introduction of a common currency. But then the project came to a halt. It lacks political and social unity and democratic legitimacy. ... There are only two solutions for the impasse Europe now finds itself in. ... Opting for a less ambitious treaty that everyone can accept, or becoming even more ambitious and voting in a parliament in the next elections that will have the democratic legitimacy to decide the direction Europe will take."

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