Europe must strive for internal unity

According to the liberal-conservative daily Corriere della Sera Europe was pushed aside at the G20 summit in London and the Nato summit in Strasbourg and must now strive to achieve internal unity and rethink the European Parliament elections: "Europe must at least find its way back to internal unity, but all the evidence points to the contrary. And the European Parliament election is taking place at this critical time. … The candidates won't be elected on the basis of their ideas for Europe but for party-political reasons in the individual countries. In such a context wouldn't it be sensible to question the principle of the [European Parliament] elections? Wouldn't it make more sense to return to having national parliaments appoint the MEPs? What can we gain from an election which unlike all other elections of this type (local, regional, national) does not serve to form a government but merely as a kind of national barometer of the degree of approval for the parties of the government or opposition in each country? What can we gain from an election that for both the political classes as well as public opinion has primarily the status of a home game?"

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