Lluís Bassets on Sarkozy's anti-European policy

In the dispute between EU Commissioner for Justice and Fundamental Rights Viviane Reding and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Lluís Bassets takes sides with the commissioner. In his Blog del Afiler al Elefante he writes: "Perhaps Ms. Reding used the wrong words: the boundary in the [Second] World War was not that clear. But that was the only mistake she made. ... There are few countries in Europe where a single person can make a decision for reasons of personal interest which ignores the government, the party and the majority of the country's institutions. This type of behaviour is related to the powers a French president has, and more to the point, with those that Sarkozy claims for himself. This singular person has received the solidarity of his colleagues on the European Council, but his actions and his reactions were profoundly anti-European. At a moral level he has eroded and trivialised the fundamental European values; at a legal level he has left the people in question vulnerable and at a political level he has reaffirmed France's inviolability and placed it above the other European members and institutions. Better to make a mistake with Reding than to be right with Sarkozy." 

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