Merkozy's plans hard to implement

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel plan to present proposals today in Paris for changes to the EU treaties, which the EU heads of state and government will then discuss at their summit meeting in Brussels on Friday. Should the summit support the plans, it will nevertheless be difficult to convince people in the EU of their merits, writes the liberal daily Gândul: "To change the treaties, politicians will once more have to curry favour with the taxpayers. The latter believe that they are wrongly being asked to pick up the tab for the politicians' inability to bring about stability and economic development. In addition, nationalist arguments are once more in vogue. For example, will the Dutch or the French agree to the possibility that their national budgets could be rejected by Berlin even before they are discussed in their national parliaments? That's hard to believe."

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