Helsinki, February 5 – Finland underlined a renewed consensus on community method to ensure the European Commission remains the central body towards a joint goal of European prosperity burying all differences.
“…We need to ensure that the European Commission remains the core institution for the whole Union ensuring a level playing field for
euro-ins and euro-outs,” Finnish Minister for International Development Alexander Stubb said while delivering a speech at the
College of Europe in Poland Tuesday.
The minister referred to the undeniable division – euro-ins and euro-outs -- in the Union reminding that the members must be very careful in managing the relationship between the two sides taking a strong lead to look after the European interests.
“We all lose if we don't get this balance right,” stated the minister issuing a strong note for keeping the single market intact to carry significant global influence as Europe has 7 percent of the world's population, produces 25 percent of its GDP and accounts for 50 percent of the world's social spending.
The minister urged all concerned to work hard together to keep things improving and allow the Euro to develop the policies it needs.
The European Union has always had flexibility, and there are different adaptations and groups as well, but for this flexibility the members need firm rules and a solid structure to work in practice.
“We have to find a good balance between flexibility and order - in the end we cannot have 28 systems, where everyone just takes what it likes,” he said adding that any community is based on a balance of rights and obligations, compromises that never go only one way.
The minister did not rule out that the Euro area crisis had been so easy, but suggested a Golden Rule - never outside the treaties, never outside the institutions, always together for the future.
