Reuters / Yahoo News: France's Sarkozy wants EU to lose half its powers - "The anti-Europe, far-right party National Front won EU parliament elections in the country this year." (Actually most who oppose utopian EU-ism are pro-Europe, traditional Europe. And of course the Mainstream Media always consider any Westerners who believe in border integrity and maintaining European ethnic traditions, rather than undergoing demographic genocide, to be sinisterly "far-right," when those same common-sense positions are routinely held by almost everyone else outside of the West.)

France's Sarkozy wants EU to lose half its powers




PARIS/BORDEAUX (Reuters) - The European Union must hand back half of its powers, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Saturday, stepping up his criticism of the 28-nation bloc as he seeks to be elected head of France's conservative party next week.

ust a few weeks after he called for the suspension of France's participation in Europe's borderless Schengen region, Sarkozy pressed on with increasingly Eurosceptic proposals rare among the country's mainstream politicians.

"I want us to eliminate half of Europe's current powers," Sarkozy said, adding that less than a dozen key policies including industrial policy, agriculture and research should remain. "Everything else must be given back to member states."

While the French have long been among the strongest backers of Europe, support has waned over the past decade over fear of glamorization. The anti-Europe, far-right party National Front won EU parliament elections in the country this year.

Sarkozy also said he wanted the bloc's executive Commission to lose its power to draft EU laws. ...

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