European Union. Hollande wants to be a “vanguard” – Ouest-France

This was said François Hollande in an article published by the Journal du Dimanche.

“The eurozone has managed this week to reaffirm its cohesion with Greece. The quality of the Franco-German relationship has been there for many. The European spirit has prevailed “, writes the President of the Republic in a folder of the Journal du Dimanche devoted to the former Minister and President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who celebrates his 90th birthday Monday.

“But we can not stop there. I offered to take up the idea of ​​Jacques Delors the Government of the euro area and add a specific budget and a Parliament to ensure democratic control “, said the head of state .

Hollande wants a government of the euro area

“Sharing a currency, this is much more than wanting a convergence. It is a choice that 19 countries have done so because it was their interest. No government also for fifteen years has taken the responsibility of escape “ says François Hollande.

« This choice calls for a strengthened organization and with countries will decide, a vanguard. France is ready because, as Jacques Delors has shown us, it always grows when it is at the initiative of Europe “, he says.

When asked in the same issue of the Journal du Dimanche, Jacques Delors himself considers that the current system of the European Union and the euro area “is no longer governable” . “This can not continue. We must rebuild this economic and monetary union. Will they do it? There was a start to construction defect. There were also nonsense and an inability of the eurozone to terminate ‘, analysis Jacques Delors.

According to him, “in the current situation, we avoided the worst. But Europe is not a moral power, I say the good moral sense. We must rebuild the moral power that made Europe’s strength in other periods, such as when the Berlin Wall “.