Brussels, 29/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 29 March, the Polish foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, highlighted the EU's weak points and called for stronger EU integration in a speech at the Polish parliament in Warsaw.
Sikorski set out a number of potential scenarios for the European Union, saying that the doom-and-gloom solution of the collapse of the European Union was not longer impossible in the light of the gradual decline of EU institutions and policies. He said there was a strong likelihood that the EU would struggle on, with politicians running round putting out the fires without understanding where they were coming from. He said that Poland wanted deep EU integration and a robust, permanent, political union of sovereign states, which would keep their own cultural and religious identity and the right to set their own taxes.
The foreign minister said that the idea of a European federation was utopian and would not be realised. Sikorski welcomed Poland's economic success, topping the league table of OECD countries for economic growth despite the global economic crisis which, he said, was the best protection of sovereignty. (LC/transl.fl)