The New Europe

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti wants to be the driving force of the European Union.

In a well received speech to the European Parliament he said:

"Too often in Brussels as a commissioner I saw national governments pointing the finger at EU institutions after they were part and parcel of the decision making process. I made a pledge never to play this dirty trick on the EU,"

The New Italy will be committed not only to austerity, but also to growth and will not just "passively transpose EU guidelines, but wants to be a major driver of these guidelines."

In this "spirit" he invited German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Rome on Friday for talks which will "focus on the community method and recognise the priority of EU institutions."

Switching to English, he criticised a "deeply superficial insular culture that naively might believe EU integration means a superstate"

French MEP Joseph Daul hailed Monti as an "example" for the EU in his rejection of intergovernmentalism.




Who is this saviour of European Institutions? Who is the man behind the "New Italy"?

Mario Monti is an unelected front man put into his position by Germany and France.

Mario Monti is the future of the European Union. Forget Europe being a coming together of nation states. Forget national interest. Forget democracy.

To see the future of New Europe look towards New Italy.

To see what the New Italy will look like, I suggest studying Vichy France.