Andrew Hough
London Telegraph
The former Prime Minister warns that the EU risks losing out to the economic might of China, India, Brazil and other booming economies.
He argues that a popular president elected by an electorate consisting of 386 million people, in 27 countries, would send a powerful message to governments around the world.
He said that unless the bloc adopted “strong, collective leadership and direction”, it would end up trailing in the wake of emerging economies.
Such a post would represent a seismic shift in the EU’s 50-year history and pave the way for sweeping economic reforms and better tax policies, he argued.
But he shrugged off public fears about more control passing into the hands of EU institutions and called for a shift in the perception of the bloc’s role from one as a peacemaker to one as a world superpower.
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