Petr Kamberský on Europeans' dislike for European unity

"The lesson the [European] elections teach us is clear: Europeans do not long for more integration", writes Petr Kamberský in the business paper Hospodářské Noviny. "Consequently there is no reason to strengthen the Union. ... There is no European nation. The United States of Europe is a dream born in the literary cafés which has nothing to do with reality in the foreseeable future. The only people who are on the move are students, a handful of business people and professionals. They commute back and forth over continents, because their unique services are everywhere in demand. The rest of Europe stays put at home, aside from the ten weekends a year it spends in Porto, Ljubljana or Prague, that is. However people's dislike for unity doesn't mean they have no interest in Europe and its four cornerstones. The problem is that decisions on the free movement of people, goods, services and capital are made by the undemocratic European Commission, not the Parliament. All Parliament does is pass one surperfluous resolution after the next."

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