Schroder's Europe.(Leaders)(Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany issues a document on the future of the European Union)(Brief Article)

Economist (US), The, May, 2001

GERMANY'S chancellor, Gerhard Schroder, is right to take the lead in the great debate about the European Union's constitutional future (see article). He is right to single out as the EU 's worst feature its failure to win the loyalty or interest of its citizens. He is right to demand a clearer division of the EU 's powers. He is right, and bold, to suggest a repatriation of much of agricultural and regional policy to the countries that make up the Union. He is right, too, to declare that the EU must sharpen up its ways of collective decision-making as it expands from its present membership of 15 to as many as 27. The new intake may start as early as 2004, when a new constitutional arrangement for the EU, if not a new constitution, should, according to the treaty signed...

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