Francois Hollande receives Angela Merkel on Monday evening at the Elysee. Objective: To grant the French and German positions following the “no” massive Greeks in terms of European creditors. And before a crucial EU summit on Tuesday.
What to expect from this appointment at the top? “L’Observateur” posed the question to Yannick Jadot (EELV), Christophe and Emmanuel Maurel Caresche (PS).
“If yelled once with Merkel”
Yannick Jadot MEP EELV
“So far, François Hollande has followed the footsteps of Sarkozy and remained lurking in the shadows of Merkel . It is not so much an economic crisis that a political crisis is known that Greek debt is unsustainable;. we know that the context of fiscal austerity is against-productive to revive the economy and jobs in Europe and yet we are incapable. to question the economic framework.
Francois Hollande had to negotiate to weaken the budget constraint that weighed on France. He received waivers on its deficits, and in return he did not seek to challenge the European framework. Holland preferred to take spankings in Berlin rather than berate once with Merkel.
Today, Holland does not want to get Tsipras himself that Merkel even could not get after his election in 2012. It’s been 6 months since the Greek Prime Minister is trying to renegotiate. The discussions of the European Council held in complete darkness, without making anyone to account. The summits repeatedly resemble a vast psychodrama dominated by personal conflicts and hatreds annealed. All rationality disappeared. That is why I proposed the appointment of a mediator, Jacques Delors, who will embody the general European interest.
I would like Hollande plays this role facilitator, but it has not done so far. It can not stay the good cop Merkel. Francois Hollande has finally become what he has never been for three years. a European leader “
” Holland has always sought to be a feature of union “
Christophe Caresche MP, member of the right wing of the PS
“I expect emerges the outline of a solution. Can we start again on the basis of pre-referendum agreement? It will be hard in my opinion. Consideration should be given a somewhat new solution by drawing lessons from this failure of Europe. The problem is always the same: how European countries meet. The approach of wanting to impose injunctions is a bit outdated. If we are heading towards a debt restructuring, it will be the Greeks to do the job, it does not in any case a gift.
Until now, Hollande advocated an agreement to the end and he did well. It was not only in the national interest. It’s a fair position, respectful of each other. He declined to take sides and engage in a dispute, unlike some left. This idea that we should reverse the succession of romanticism and table a strategy that makes no sense and would lead only to the eurozone breakup.
In Germany, is not observed mobilization of the extreme left. A huge gap is widening between Northern and Southern Europe, a break that is not territorial but ideological from a certain point of view. Or Holland, from the start, refuses to be the spokesman of the country’s south against Germany would be that of the north. He has always sought to be a hyphen. “
” Holland must be the voice of those who want to reorient Europe “
Emmanuel Maurel MEP, a member of the left wing of the PS
“I expect Hollande take the lead in a shift. We are told that there had lately a difference of opinion with Angela Merkel. It did not see much. Holland must be the voice of those who want to seize the opportunity of this vote to reorient Europe. If we are on the hard position taken by Wolfgang Schäuble [German Finance Minister Ed], it is envisaged a double Europe: on one side those who respect budgetary discipline, on the other those who are not in the nails and find themselves released. It must end the intransigence that gives Europe a deplorable image of playground.
Concretely, we must put on the table the issue of debt, that must be negotiated and rescheduled to allow time for Tsipras to implement structural reforms. The problem is also political. If a compromise is not found, it will not be surprising futures that European citizens turn away or cry coming in every election on the score nationalists. “
Interview Baptiste Legrand and not Audrey Salor
A “no” evil that happens in Germany “
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