European public opinion

After the Greek-End of the 13 July the Eurosceptic camp is again on the march… They claim the Eurozone is now divided between the North and the South and that a Euro break-up is around the corner. They say Hollande´s proposal to establish a Eurozone Budget and Parliament and Padoan´s call to establish a political union are unfeasible and undesirable (because people don´t want it). Well, in this op-ed for Politico Europe I beg to disagree. The biggest obstacle for a political union are not the people´s of Europe, as is claimed by the Eurosceptics, but rather the national governmental elites who have most to lose from a more supranational Europe. In many ways, the Eurosceptics based in the US and the UK don´t see that the EZ is starting to develop an own identity…. This is of course something that they have always feared and rejected…