EU needs reform or fade away
Respected and popular German politician Joschka Fischer warns that Europe needs to get it’s act together or risk fading away while upcoming superpowers like China and India use it as a playground. The US is already looking at China and India while paying less attention to Europe according to mister Fischer. He argues that Europe needs to work more as a united entity, and that even the United Kingdom needs Europe if it still wants to have a say in world affairs.
The rest of the world will not wait for Europe while it bickers over institutional reform and external policy issues, says Joschka Fischer, ex-German foreign minister, warning that the risk of it becoming a “playground” for upcoming super powers grows by the day.
Tempered by his time in the US where politicians are already looking to China and India as the next powers to be, the former politician-turned-Princeton-professor has a very sober view of the European Union’s position in the world as it dusts itself off from recent 50th birthday celebrations.
“Here in the United States, I hear ‘who is Europe, where is Europe?’ They are looking for China and for India. Europe is increasingly fading away beyond the horizon in the Atlantic,” Mr Fischer tells EUobserver in an interview.
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Administrator @ March 30, 2007