The path that is both realistic and courageous

EUROPE IS DEAD, LONG LIVE EUROPE!

of Pierre Moscovici

Editions Perrin, 197 pages,.

15.80 EUR.

It was long that it had not read or a French Socialist said any sentencing that he felt may 29, 2005, when the French have rejected the Treaty constitutional nor any good that he think of Europe, that he would like to save the flood. The French Socialists have been since this well discrete "historical" date on the question: is that behind facade restored unity, divisions remain on Europe, as demonstrated by the PS internal campaign. A few months of the presidential deadline, it considers critical to the future of the European Union, Pierre Moscovici, former Minister of European Affairs and President of the movement European France, puts the feet in the flat, straight, without complacency for his party and offers both simple and ambitious ideas out of the crisis which ronge Europe and threatens to destroy it.

But first, he returns to roots deep in the "no" decided referendum wrongly in him by President Chirac to ratify the Constitution European: the fear of globalization, unfairly embodied by the Commission, social suffering, the loss of the cues to a lived as a leak, enlargement anxiety before a vague political project.

Severe indictment

"The France (...)". does more Europe as it is, as it is built, broad, market, open in a Word, and at the same time opaque, complex and undemocratic. "She forgets the virtues, it sees more than defects", he wrote. If it's a very harsh indictment but rather just Jacques Chirac European policy, to which he attributed much of the failure of May 29, he is not soft either from his own camp where "European anchor, by Francois Mitterrand, has never gone self-esteem." "There was all time critical, or even frankly reluctant currents to build European Socialist Party". The wager missed the internal referendum, the "fratricidal" struggle waged by the proponents of the "no", the lies uttered during the campaign, and, with supporters of the "Yes", a curious inability to convince, to be enthusiastic: Pierre Moscovici returned at length on these painful moments, if for no longer having to relive them. It argues in this book to resolve once and for all the "ambiguity" that ceased to maintain the French left towards Europe. He wants to convince her that "it is possible and necessary to respond to the anxieties of the French otherwise than by a speech exposed to the temptation of nationalist and xenophobic risk" and that the only way for the PS is a full integration in the European, European, and progressive social party.

"The radicality is an impasse," he says. Or the output of crisis in Europe must be, if the left won in the presidential election, by a European commitment strong. The path that is both realistic and courageous. Make function better economic Europe, set boundaries for the Union, define clearly the joint project to hatch a European identity, and then, only the question of institutions, or even a new Constitution.

But the urgency, it is the renegotiation of a "mini-Treaty" as Sarkozy defends would resume "the most useful elements of the Constitutional Treaty", and would engage in some major reforms: that of economic governance, the European budget and the social model European. Pierre Moscovici is not proposing a grand evening immediately braquerait the vast majority of its partners. But concrete steps that the France would negotiate alongside the Spanish, German, Belgian and Italian Socialists. "It is by turning resolutely towards the socialism of the possible that the French Socialists (...)". "will be able to embody a truly European left and thus contribute to the necessary relaunch Europe."