Anatole Kaletsky – Softly, softly a federal Europe draws nerer (The Times)
Forget Angela Merkel’s treaty changes or David Cameron’s budget quibbles, the real event at last week Brussels summit was that Europe took an important step towards becoming a single state.
Anatole Kaletsky argues that at 28/29 October summit in Brussels the EU took “its most decisive step towards becoming a genuine unitary State, by shifting key policies on taxes and public spending from national to federal level.” “That one of the most controversial decisions in modern European history has been taken with almost no public awareness or debate is a tribute to the top-down style of government perfected by the EU’s political elites,” he notes.
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