Dette er i mine ører kontroversielt og skræmmende (men sandsynligvis realistisk):
“In my personal view,
Europe will need to make significant progress towards political unity with an executive branch and a parliament, both with extended responsibilities as in any democracy,” Trichet said in a parliamentary hearing in Brussels today. “
Part of this executive branch would be a European finance ministry which will be responsible, not necessarily for a large federal budget, but certainly for a strong economic and fiscal surveillance and governance, for the handling of the financial sector and for the external representation of the Economic and Monetary Union.”
Kilde:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-04/ecb-s-trichet-says-europe-must-progress-toward-political-unity.html