The first joint appearance by the leaders of France and Germany at the European Parliament since the fall of the Berlin Wall was meant to offer the beleaguered union a new vision.
Instead, Angela Merkel and François Hollande unwittingly presented a stark reminder of why the EU, in the words of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “is not in a good state.”
Far from the blueprint for Europe’s future, the two leaders offered little more than old hat.
With a pair of speeches almost identical in tone and scope, they relied on familiar rhetoric about the necessity for “more Europe,” peppering their remarks …read more
Source: European Voice
