Giorgos Delastik on the departure from the European idea

The EU Commission on Monday published a survey according to which many EU citizens take a dim view of the advantages offered by the European single market. Roughly 65 percent of German respondents felt that large businesses are the only ones to profit from the single market. But the Germans aren't the only ones turning their backs on the European vision, writes columnist Giorgos Delastik in the left-liberal daily To Ethnos: "More and more of the hundreds of millions of Europeans share this scepticism. They feel isolated from the so-called 'European idea' and view the completion of the EU, to the extent that it is being pursued these days, as a threat to their standard of living. Clearly the European elites feel they have the power to push through their idea for completing Europe without the approval of half a billion EU citizens. But it's not certain that things will always be that way."

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