N-VA advocates pragmatic and feasible European projects

During a visit by President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker to the federal parliament, there was time for a brief exchange of thoughts between the members of the Chamber and the Senate. On behalf of the N-VA, MP Peter Luykx issued a short but powerful plea during that exchange against the Europhile institutional castles in the sky of “More Europe” and for pragmatic and feasible projects that bring the European Union closer to the citizen and offer a way out to the many crises it and others are battling.

For example, Peter Luykx investigated Jean-Claude Juncker’s willingness to see an institutional standstill in Europe. Following the example of the Belgian government, a so-called Swedish Coalition at European level, which focuses on a centre-right recovery policy, would be able to get the Union back on the right track. “Back to the core message of the story, that of giving the population its faith in the Union back. As part of this we have to give clear priority to economic improvements in the short term,” says Peter Luykx. In any case Jean-Claude Juncker’s answer certainly left no room for doubt. Hurling the EU back into an institutional adventure makes no sense: there is simply no support for that among the population. In that regard the President of the European Commission’s opinion dovetails closely with the vision of the N-VA.