Dominique Reynié: "The health crisis we are experiencing could be fatal for the European Union"

LE FIGARO. - European solidarity, particularly with regard to Italy, was lacking during the health crisis. Is this not the demonstration that there is no European people?

Dominique REYNIÉ. - At the request of the States, public health is an area which falls within their competence and not the European Union. The current health crisis is therefore rather a crisis of European nation states. They demanded that they retain full sovereignty in this matter. The result is spectacular: all demonstrate their unpreparedness. The European Union was conceived by these States, but from an idea of ​​cooperation and not of solidarity. The European idea was denied access to affectio societatis by national states which wanted to maintain this recognition link as a monopoly.

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