President of the Republic considers that EU needs to rebuild support base

The President of the Republic considered on Wednesday that the European Union (EU) has a political problem of outdated leadership conception and obsolete institutional systems. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa considers that the EU needs to rebuild its support base.

« The problem of Europe is not economical, not technocratic, it is a political problem, » said the head of state. « It’s a political problem because lost time has been politically lost, because the systems are obsolete, because the European project support base has been weakening, » he added.

In an intervention at the end of the 18th Cotec Europa Summit, at the Convent of San Francisco, in Coimbra, the President of the Republic argued that « there is no European Commission, there is no European parliament, there is no European council tight to make political decisions if they are questioned on the basis in a considerable number of member states in Europe. »

According to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, « it is not possible to solve the problem if not reconstructing the internal support base, the Member State State, to the European project. Building conditions for the European unit. »

Quoted by the Lusa agency, he warned that he will start operating “in groups of Member States” and warned that “there is no possible unity, no possible possible leadership in Europe, as there is no national level. This is the challenge,” he said.

According to the head of state, « European and national institutions have a conception of outdated leadership and institutional system » and the European Union has suffered with « loss of leadership in science, technology, energy, finance, capital markets, domestic markets – all political problems. »