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"The polarisation of Europe we are currently witnessing is a result of the EU’s financial crisis, which in turn has been triggered by its institutional crisis. It would appear that Europe risks being divided into two camps; on the one side advocates of closer political integration combined with efforts to achieve a more social Europe, and on the other supporters of a Europe limited to the single market, with a looser institutional framework.
The point I should like to stress is that the EU’s future is not a matter of choosing between these two approaches. The EU must continue to move towards a more stable institutional framework, just as it must reform its budget and concentrate its resources on areas that will allow us to compete on a global scale.
The incoming British presidency has gained considerable popularity in Central Europe as a result of its efforts to drive forward financial reform and economic modernisation. Yet such efforts must not go hand in hand with a weakening of the institutions. Similarly, there is public support for France and Germany’s attempts to achieve closer political integration, but not if this involves inefficient welfare systems and protectionist approaches being set in stone. We must settle the political dispute over economic and social strategies within the bounds of the existing institutional playing field. The EU will not find a way out of its current crisis if it tries to lay down its institutional framework at the same time as deciding on the content of specific policies. In other words, it must not attempt to mark out the playing field while deciding who has scored how many goals in which net.
The incoming presidency has a unique chance to make its attempts to reform the EU’s budget and economy more credible, namely by ensuring that its first objective is to achieve a more stable institutional framework on the basis of Parts One and Two of the Constitution."@en1
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