Van Rompuy's reform castrates nation states

Ahead of the summit in Brussels planned for Thursday and Friday, leading representatives from the EU and the ECB have drawn up a reform paper that paves the way for deeper integration of the Union under the aegis of EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy. The business paper Hospodárske noviny is less than enthusiastic about the idea: "What is being born in Brussels is by no means an inevitable reform. It is a silent coup that will castrate the nation states. In the context of the crisis, the EU is turning into a political union ruled by Germany. … The proponents of this course of action argue that integration is imperative, otherwise the Union won't survive. But if this Union explodes one day it will be because it's unnatural, artificial and centralised. And because it lacks the support of the people. This means the Union is basically an illegal construction."

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