Asked for his response to comments made by the Foreign Secretary, Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters in Brussels that he was “strictly against” an EU superstate.
“Some in the British political society are against the truth,
pretending that I am a stupid, stubborn federalist, that I am in favour
of a European superstate,” Mr Juncker told a press conference.
“I am strictly against a European superstate. We are not the United
States of America, we are the European Union, which is a rich body
because we have these 27, or 28, nations.
“The European Union cannot be built against the European nations, so this is total nonsense.”
During the EU referendum campaign Mr Johnson had accused EU leaders like
Mr Juncker of wanting to create a superstate similar to the ones sought
by Hitler or Napoleon, but “by different methods"
Recently the Britsh Foreign Secretary gave a speech claiming that Brexit
represented a “natural desire for self-government of the people, by the
people, for the people” and a break from EU politicians’ plan to “create
an overarching European state as the basis for a new sense of European
political identity”.
Read more: Boris Johnson talking 'total nonsense' about EU, European Commission president Juncker says | The Independent
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