Brussels, 13/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - The “United States of Europe”, which the Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt is proposing to create in his new book, (EUROPE 9128) should, according to the author, focus on five priority “missions”.
1) Set up a “European pilot system” for economics. Mr Verhofstadt explained that Europe's currently weak economic growth rate and its competitiveness can in large part be explained by the absence of a Community economic and social policy....