A vote for our children’s future

The Franco-German motor is moving into overdrive — we are heading for yet another EU treaty, driven by Merkel and Sarkozy.

A treaty that is needed so they can progress reforms to stem the mounting eurozone debt crises. But is this the solution we want? So many are sceptical, afraid that we will give up yet more of our sovereignty, but the reality is we gave up that sovereignty back in 1973 when we joined the then Common Market. With 27 member states (soon to be 28 with Croatia joining this year) and 17 in the euro currency zone, we have a group of part-integrated, part-sovereign states, all subject to a variety of different parliamentary rules and constitutions that it is impossible for the ECB to enforce the already often broken rules of fiscal responsibility by every state in the EU.

Until Europe can control the euro and its rules, and bring the rule breakers to task, the current crises is beyond repair.