Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2014-11-13-Speech-4-452-000"
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"en.20141113.25.4-452-000"2
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"Mr President, the world keeps expanding into more and more countries. The trend is away from great multinational empires and towards independent states, South Sudan being one of the most recent. Everywhere, of course, except in this continent, which is going in the opposite direction. Here alone, powers are being centralised, decisions instead of being devolved are being taken by a smaller and more remote elite.
I offer for your consideration the idea that this may be connected to the fact that we are now living in the only continent on the planet that is experiencing no economic growth at all. Every other continent has bounced back from the crash. We in the eurozone particularly – we in the European Union – stand on the brink, incredibly, of our third recession in six years. Why? Because we have taken more and more power away from local people and centralised it with remote elites in Brussels. We are therefore the only place in the world that is falling behind."@en1
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