Sarkozy advisor slams EU's "dogmatic vision" - but is he right? - NON!
'European affairs cannot be governed only by general, impersonal, automatic rules which have been fixed in advance. Europe should debate these things together and decide together, as happens in all other democracies in the world,' Guaino said. He singled out the independence of the European Central Bank (ECB), a repeated target of Sarkozy's ire.
'For the moment there is no project to change the statutes of the ECB, but France wants to strengthen economic governance and to discuss this monetary policy because in a democracy we should be able to discuss everything,' he said.
Note EU-Digest: "It seems Mr. Guaino wants to blame France her economic problems on the EU. If only France had adopted the EU economic guidelines its economy would be in far better shape than it is today. Also his quote about the US economy is out of context. France copying US economic principles based on their present social and economic structure would mean completely economic collapse. Mr Guaini and his boss Mr. Sarkozy do better to internally clean up France's economic mess before they start attacking the rigid rules of the EU."
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