‘EU is now FLAWED AND FAILING’ European dream has been crushed, says ex-French minister
MORE and more people are losing faith in the European project and are being wooed by far-right populists because the EU has failed, former French foreign minister, Hubert Védrine said.
By ROMINA MCGUINNESS
Express.co.uk
Tue, Mar 14, 2017
Mr Védrine, former top aide to the late Socialist president François Mitterrand, added Europeans were growing increasingly “disillusioned” with the crumbling EU project and anti-Brussels nationalists were “riding on that wave of discontent” and garnering support.
He said: “Some member states feel let down by the Brussels bloc, and feel that the EU has too many rules and regulations.
“They have become allergic to all the red tape.
“The rise of the European far-right is a huge body blow for the EU; but it is also a warning sign that the EU project is flawed and failing.”
The Socialist official added member states, in the 1990s, had dreamed of a borderless Europe and of a conflict-free, global world, but that these dreams had “long been crushed”.
He said: “European leaders sleepwalked themselves to decline and destruction.
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