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Financial Times diz que o presidente da França vai propor a formação de um governo europeu. O jornal não sabe bem o que isto significa e aponta que François Hollande quer apenas ganhar dividendos políticos. Mas diz que ele vai lançar a ideia oficialmente.
Como se não bastasse a falta de liberdade econômica que a moeda única traz aos países e o avanço da União Europeia sobre a cultura dos países, o que inclui tentar forçar a adoção do casamento gay e ampliar o aborto, a França socialista de Hollande quer apertar ainda mais as correntes.
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Hollande eyes push for ‘eurozone
government’
Anne-Sylvaine Chassany
French
leader seeks to unite pro-Europeans two years out from presidential election
François
Hollande wants to be the new Jacques Delors. Back from Brussels, where he helped salvage a deal to keep
Greece in the eurozone, the French president has embraced an idea first formulated
by the former European Commission boss — like him, a socialist — for a
“eurozone government”. He would bolster it with a budget and a parliament.
Resented by many in his camp for giving in to German
chancellor Angela Merkel on budget discipline shortly after being elected in
2012, Mr Hollande seems serious this time. French proposals will be presented
by the end of summer, according to Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
“France is ready because, as demonstrated by Jacques
Delors, it rises above itself when it takes the initiative in Europe,” Mr
Hollande explained in a letter published in Sunday newspaper Journal du
Dimanche, reiterating comments he
had made on Bastille day.
Detailed measures that go beyond the habitual calls
for more “solidarity” and “social and fiscal convergence” would be a first.
“This notion of economic government is a French request that dates back several
decades,” Nicolas Véron, senior fellow at Brussels-based think-tank Bruegel,
says. “But I’ve never seen anything on what it actually means. I am looking
forward to seeing this document, if there is ever a document.”
Paris’ plan is met with scepticism across Europe, Mr
Veron points out, because “France has never managed to reconcile the
contradiction between its attachment to sovereignty and this European ideal”.
Mr Hollande may be sincere, but France’s fantasy of European integration has,
so far, clashed with an entrenched sense of national independence inherited
from Charles de Gaulle.
Even if Paris lays out measures, there is little
chance they will get any traction in Germany. Worse, Mr Veron says, the mere
fact of presenting them would likely widen the rift between Paris and Berlin
that emerged during the acrimonious talks over Greece 10 days ago — a rift that
Mr Hollande has been anxious to paper over.
So why trumpet this plan in the first place? The
answer is politics. Two years out from the presidential election, the defining
faultline in the French political landscape is changing from left-right to pro
and anti-Europe.
“He is seeking to unite the pro-Europeans behind him
while showing he can stand up to Germany,” says Dominique Moïsi, founder of the
French Institute for International Relations. “Europe is unpopular, but there’s
a place for someone who defends the euro, because the alternative, an exit, is
too scary. The lesson of the Greek crisis is that even a radical left
government like Syriza does not want to take that risk.”
But what if the French proposals are blocked by
Germany, or Greece exits the eurozone? “He may be making those proposals
precisely because they lead nowhere,” Mr Moïsi says. “From a domestic point of
view, it costs nothing. If things go awry, people will still remember his
efforts.”
The fact that Mr Hollande’s main opponents on the
right, Nicolas Sarkozy and Alain Juppé, flirted with the idea of Grexit only to
backtrack, have reinforced the president’s claim to the true defender of
eurozone unity.
Mr Hollande, who is an optimist, hopes that with a bit
of luck and a recovering economy, voters will realise he is not such a
catastrophic leader, Mr Moïsi says.
There is no real evidence for it yet. In one recent
opinion poll, Mr Hollande’s approval rating rose by five points to 28 per cent
but in another there was no change. Any bounce could be shortlived as the left
grasps the nature of the Greek plan the president has signed up for — tough
reforms, tax hikes and spending cuts in exchange for €86bn in new loans, but no
firm commitment to debt relief.
The Greek deal “is proof that the tenets of the left
may be incompatible with the eurozone, that there’s no way out of the German
diktat”, says Laurent Bouvet, political sciences professor at Versailles
University. The real winner could be Marine Le Pen, the National Front leader
who has been advocating a “Frexit”, he says. The regional elections in December
will serve as a critical test.
