By Christian Famechon, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles (33)
Posted on 02/10/2021
Updated at 5:58 p.m.
Everyone knows the adage “There is strength together”, and everyone knows that in most trades two workers taking on a task are more than twice as efficient as a worker working alone. This is the basic concept of teamwork. But for this union to be effective it is still necessary that it be well organized, that the rules of its operation are simple and precise and that all of its members participate willingly and constructively. The current problems linked to the pandemic show that in Europe, these conditions seem far from being met. Europe has not been able to develop a vaccine. The German BioNtech was forced to partner with the American giant Pfizer, the French researcher Stéphane Bancel had to join the United States to find the means to carry out fruitful research. The icing on the cake is that Great Britain, which has just left the European Union, has succeeded in producing its own vaccine, the result of research at the University of Oxford. As for the vaccination campaign, let’s not talk about it. The Brussels bureaucracy was behind schedule to which were added those of the administrations of each member country, among which France was not particularly distinguished. Let us add that members of this European Union are part of this group only to “make their market there” without intention to participate actively by making their own decisions and paralyzing the operating system by abusively using their right of veto or any at least by raising the doubt of being able to use it. As long as Great Britain succeeds in its “brexit”, other countries will want to imitate it and that will be the end of this magnificent project of European Union. The time has come for Europe to draw the consequences of this crisis, to get its act together, to review its operating rules, to lighten its cumbersome and administrative procedures, to stop costly dispersing these decision-making bodies by several parts of the continent (Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg) and to seek by all means to increase its effectiveness, was this by separating from the members whose cooperation seems more than doubtful and for whom paralysis prevails over action.
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