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το πιστόλι -λέμε τώρα- στο δόξα πατρί και θα σου την
μπουμπουνίσω.
FT: Schäuble revives push
for eurozone integration
Germany is pushing for
changes to EU treaties “as soon as possible” after the May European elections,
in an overhaul to fuse eurozone economic governance behind a budget chief and
euro area parliament.
In interviews, speeches
and articles, Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s finance minister, has given urgency
and political impetus to Berlin’s longstanding ideas for a refashioned and
Speaking at the College
of Europe in Bruges, Mr Schäuble outlined a vision for a changing EU treaties to
establish a “budget commissioner” empowered to use common funds and reject
national fiscal plans if they “don’t correspond to the rules”.
Asked when he envisaged
agreeing the treaties, he said “today is better than tomorrow” and called for
negotiations to start straight after the European parliament elections in
May.
These reforms to
integrate the eurozone, he added, must be paired with measures to ensure those
countries outside are not “systematically disadvantaged” – an approach that will
be welcomed by Britain.
In a joint Financial
Times article with George Osborne, the UK chancellor, he wrote that future
treaty change “must include reform of the governance framework to put euro area
integration on a sound legal basis, and guarantee fairness for those EU
countries inside the single market but outside the single
currency”.
Mr Schäuble’s
intervention to restart the reform debate highlights Berlin’s determination that
the EU should build on the eurozone’s fragile economic recovery from the
financial crisis by creating institutions strong enough to withstand future
turmoil.
The veteran finance
minister’s pledge to fight for reform comes after the joint declaration in
January from German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president François
Hollande, pledging to work for closer economic and monetary
union.
But the German government
has now gone a step further, arguing in the FT that treaty change must also
address one of key negotiating demands of Mr Cameron, the UK prime minister,
before his planned 2017 referendum: the protection of the interests of euro
“outs”.
Mr Schäuble, a long-term
advocate of reform, wants to establish an institutional architecture for a
common fiscal and economic policy, with a parliament, finance minister and
budget to support countries in crisis and encourage reform.
He said it was “nonsense”
to suggest the power for a eurozone commissioner to reject national budgets
would impinge on sovereignty. “To stick to the rules is not a violation of
budget sovereignty...of national sovereignty. We have moved sovereignty to the
European level,” he said.
Germany’s renewed
appetite for treaty reform will rattle some eurozone member states, which fear
the centralisation of budget power would potentially trigger national
plebiscites that could not be won.
Big gains for more
radical, eurosceptic parties in the May elections could undermine efforts by
mainstream parties such as Ms Merkel’s CDU to build a political consensus for
strengthening the eurozone.
Acknowledging the
populist threat in an interview with Handelsblatt, the business daily, Mr
Schäuble said that the performance of France’s National Front in the recent
local elections and the growth of eurosceptic parties elsewhere was “not a good
development”.
But he took comfort from
hopes that the Ukraine crisis could boost voter support for European
integration, saying: “Europe always advances in a crisis... the crisis in
Ukraine will make people in Europe more confidence about the value of European
integration again, and motivate them to vote. Then the turnout would rise, and
the eurosceptic forces would likely perform worse than many fear
today.”
The finance minister
forecast that the effect of the crisis for the German economy would be
“manageable”. As for sanctions, German industry had made clear that if they were
imposed it would be ready. “You have to convince Russia with diplomacy and
economic pressure. Compliance with the rules and principles is not only in the
interests of the west but also Russia.”