JEAN-CLAUDE Juncker has issued a thinly-veiled broadside to Britain’s democracy, accusing politicians of being “part-time Europeans” who listen to their voters too much.
REUTERS/GETTY Jean-Claude Juncker has issued a scathing assessment of democracy
The Vote Leave campaign blasted: “Juncker sees democracy as an inconvenience for his European Project.”
REUTERS Mr Juncker railed against politicians who represent their voters interests about Brussels
EPA He made the remarks during a debate about the state of the EU
Mr Juncker’s remarks come amid a series of deeply worrying EU initiatives which Brexit campaigners have warned will severely dent British sovereignty, including a drive to create an EU army and plans to station Euro police on our streets.
“And if you are listening to your national opinion, you are not developing what should be common European sense: a feeling for the need we have to put together our efforts.
“We are observing an increasing gap between public opinions and the European policy-makers. Unfortunately there is no European public opinion – the public opinions are still divided in national categories.”
PA The comments will provide a further headache for David Cameron’s beleaguered Remain campaign
REUTERS Mr Juncker was rebuked by EU Council chief Donald Tusk, who told him to ditch his federalist dream
His comments come amid a heightening resolve amongst Brussels bureaucrats to accelerate the pace of European federalisation.
However Britain and Mr Cameron appear to have found an unlikely ally in the form of the hard-headed Polish president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, who rebuked Mr Juncker’s dream of a federal Europe.
Responding to the speech, he insisted that EU veterans need to abandon their “completely unrealistic utopia” of a United States of Europe.
“This means that today we must admit this dream of one European state with one common interest and maybe in the future one common nation was an illusion.”
Fittingly their debate took place in the Capitolini Museum in Rome, where the 2004 EU Constitution was signed off before being rejected by the French and Dutch in referendums.
The controversial document was revived a couple of years later as the Lisbon Treaty, which was forced through after initially being rejected by the Irish in their own referendum.
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