“EU competitiveness will be judged by the participation of its citizens » The Minister of Maritime and Island Policy says, Vassilis Kikiliasin an article in “Sunday’s Kathimerini”, with the central theme of European politics and the distance that separates Brussels’ decisions from Member States.

Particular emphasis gives its intention European committee to reform budgetstressing:

“EU financial tools will be reformed and gathered in 27” national plans “, one for each Member State. This will remove about 500 smaller financial lines. Given that the $ 200 billion are not new resources and money, there are obviously there will be funds from joint agricultural policy and convergence projects through NSRF. How exactly will the rural economy of Europe and especially the European South be modernized and modernized? And how will further convergence, or rather the halt of divergence between the North and the South within the EU, especially after the great financial crisis of the previous decade? What will happen to the continuation of the 96 billion Horizon Europe Research Pillar, where any dynamic productive economy is based? “

In this context, he states the Mario Draghi’s intervention in September 2024who spoke openly about the lag of her European economy against the US and China. “Mario Draghi showed the elephant in the room, naming the main causes of this lag: excessive bureaucracy, incomplete funding, low digital skills of human resources. I think if you add the factor “robust political leadership” it would fully describe the problem. “

Referring to increasing distancing of societies by the European buildinghighlights: “The societies of the Member States are increasingly ‘anti -systemic’. In every ballot box, youth, workers, peoples express “anti-system”, national and supranational ” noting features: “Unlike the ‘Directorates’ opinion, no, countries are not companies and citizens are not employees. On the contrary, they are experiencing the expansion of economic and social inequalities daily, the vertical increase in the cost of life and the fixation of their income, the insecurity in everyday life, etc. “

And completes his article with the labeling: “The refusal of the reality experienced by citizens or worse, its beauty with half truths and in parallel demonization with the sign of” populism “only causes the European family. We have to accept the truth about where we failed, even if it enrages us, so that we can be saved. “