In my opinion the present EU, and also as it was and is growing, cannot survive or develop with the slowest boat determining the speed of the whole fleet, what makes a “Europe à la carte” inavoidable – unfortunately! In this context a new EU Treaty must come, this was evident from the day the Lisbon Treaty was in power. All outcries when this was discussed were just appeasement to the “public opinion”, not taking into account the silent majority.

This autumn will be a hot one for the EU, as we will nosedive into a new treaty discussion. Unlike with other treaties, this time we have a real discussion about the real future of the EU. EU Commission President Barroso has articulated in his State of the Union Address from today that this Europe will be federal, wil be “more Europe” than ever. We will come – finally! – into interesting, even thrilling times for the whole EU.

So we will not have only a clear decision for the continuation of the Euro among its present partners, but there will also come the next new Member States into this system. Not today,not tomorrow, but after tomorrow; however they have to take the right tracks already now, and this definitely. In addition, we will have a more democratic EU with stronger institutions, and after these discussions there will be a decisionmaking. Maybe even by a public referendum among all the participating EU Member States. And who does not approve what will be elaborated, will be left behind. Period.

Indeed, the next European Parliament elections in 2014 will be an important milestone. The general unanimous approval to the EU will be sometimes and in some countries in controversial discussion. But the EU (about which is said “TINA – There Is No Alternative”, but this is not enough) as a principle of a political get together will make it.

This will go now hand in hand with EU steps to settle the so-called financial crisis. We have now a first cornerstone with the so called fiscal union, with the future banking supervision by the ECB, and by the new policy of the ECB to buy, if necessary, state bonds in an unlimited quantity. That this was declared was absolutely right – every limitation would be an invitation to speculators to test the possibility of not-anymore-reactions.

This we know since the old European Monetary System when in the 1980s the bandwidth of 2,25% for the old ECU was enlarged to 12,5%, and all of a sudden the speculations against the 2,25% limit were over. By the way, one of the speculators who then forced the UK to leave the ECU, in a crtain way the predecessor of the Euro, was Hungary-born George Soros who only these days in an interview of DER SPIEGEL recommended to Germany to leave the Euro. This would have inevitably a spiral turn upwards for the old/new Deutsche Mark as consequence, very welcome for speculators who then can bet again huge amounts on these movements.

It is evident that any solution of the financial crisis can only be implemented under clear social balances. These have to differ from Member State to MS, even from region to region. This is a lever for a multi-level approach, according to the subsidiarity principle which implies that as much as possible has to be done at the level which is closest to the citizen.

So the discussion about the future of Europe has just started – today, Wednesday, 12.9.2012. With the speech of Barroso on the State of the Union before the European Parliament, and with the decision of the German Constitutional Court about the compliance of the German legislation with the EU 500 bn. ESM (European Stability Mechanism) umbrella and the fiscal union. This time the silent majority (or the “elites” as often pronounced) should not remain silent but lead the discussion.

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