United Europe ‘an illusion’: Top 3 EU politicians paint grim picture of bloc’s future
RT.com
6 May, 2016
Three of the EU’s most senior politicians have painted a grim picture of the bloc saying the idea of a united European Union is “an illusion,” while it was also described as being a “fertile ground for populists.”
European Union President Donald Tusk, the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz, the President of the European Parliament were all scathing of government leaders across the EU, due to their inability to compromise and their preferences to look out of for personal interest.
“In former times we were working together… we were in charge of a big piece of history. This has totally gone,” AP reported Junker, ex-PM of Luxembourg, as saying. He added that he believed that people living in the EU do not understand what the bloc is trying to do.
The EU has been rocked by splits in how to deal with the large amounts of refugees looking to enter the continent. While some countries such as Germany and Sweden have welcomed migrants with open arms, others like Poland and Hungary have refused to accept refugees.
This led Junker to accuse certain EU countries, without naming any names, of being “part-time” members of the bloc.
“We have full-time Europeans when it comes to taking and part-time Europeans when it comes to giving,” he said, according to Reuters, adding that those countries were often the ones that received the largest handouts from the EU.
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