Brussels, 15/07/2002 (Agence Europe) - In an interview published Sunday in the "Tagesspiegel am Sonntag" newspaper, the Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder accused the European Commission of leading a "neo-liberal" policy that was damaging to economic growth and European values. Mr Schröder explained that he had noticed a strange attitude from the "Commission teachers" or those who liked to think of themselves as such and whose neo-liberalism went further than that of the USA. He described powerful currents in Brussels, which believed that all Europe needed was a high level of services and well organised financial markets and that manufacturing industry could be entirely ignored. Mr Schröder promised to make Germany "a bastion" in the defence of Europe against neo-liberalism and the resurgence of the far-right.