New Nationalism threatens to hinder Union’s progress
The following is an excerpt from an address by Ambassador Elisabeth Tichy-Fisslberger, “A compromise is nobodies darling” at an International Symposium on ‘Public Opinion and Europe’ on May 5.
Possibly the most frequent explanation for EU skepticism is that people apparently are under the impression (which journalists exploit) that Europe does not have the answers to all the questions that people are asking. They believe that Europe is setting the wrong priorities. This is primarily because Europe evolved as a business community of fairly well-off countries, and so concentrated at the beginning on questions of the market. What concerns the people of Europe however, are things like employment, the health system, education, pensions, social security and taxes.
