Karel de Gutch believes that Merkel and Sarkozy may not agree solo formulas to get Europe out of the crisis. To calm markets, the comisairo committed to dnder to the euro at all costs and bring order to the national budgets. The European Commissioner for trade Karel De Gucht believes that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy can not decide alone the formulas to get Europe out of the crisis. In an interview published Sunday in the online of the Flemish newspaper De Standaard Edition, former Belgian Foreign Minister believed that the meeting between Merkel and Sarkozy this week has not solved anything and it should be interpreted as a simple pooling their ideas in the face of proposals that will make the rest of European leaders. Merkel and Sarkozy have not decided anything this week, said De Gucht and stressed that the recipes of the Franco-German axis are not directly European proposals. De Gucht explained that the fact that France and Germany want to harmonize corporate tax or establish a true economic governance in the euro area is not enough to make these measures are approved, since they would require in addition profound adjustments in the treaties.
Sarkozy tries to perhaps give the impression that you want to think more about Europa, but does so in its own way, which is purely intergovernmental, argued and said that one of the main weaknesses of Europe at this time is that everyone is behaving as if he had decided something. De Gucht referred also to the declarations of this week of the first President of the European Commission and driving force behind the creation of the euro, Jacques Delors, who considered that the single European currency and the own community project run a serious risk of extinction if urgent measures are not taken. I understand that Delors is concerned, he noted and considered that very few of those who they know and observe Europe are not concerned. The Commissioner estimated that to calm the markets we need to spread the message that the EU dndera the euro at all costs and also put national budgets in order to avoid further spending above what you have.