EU: We want a United States of Europe says top EU official - by Bruno Waterfield

EU: United we stand divided we fall

A campaign for the European Union to become a "United States of Europe" will be the "best weapon against the Eurosceptics", one of Brussels' most senior officials has said.

Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission and the longest serving Brussels commissioner, has called for "a true political union" to be put on the agenda for EU elections this spring.

"We need to build a United States of Europe with the Commission as government and two chambers – the European Parliament and a "Senate" of Member States," she said last night.

Mrs Reding's vision, which is shared by many in the European institutions, would transform the EU into superstate relegating national governments and parliaments to a minor political role equivalent to that played by local councils in Britain.

Under her plan, the commission would have supremacy over governments and MEPs in the European Parliament would supersede the sovereignty of MPs in the House of Commons.


Note EU-Digest: Stronger unity is the only way for the EU to get true leverage on the overall state of World Affairs, regardless if Eurosceptics like the idea or not. A United Europe will stand and divided it will fall. Anyone who believes any one country in the EU can go at it alone, while surrounded by world super powers like Chia, Russia and the US is dreaming.

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