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Comment: Fate Hour Of Europe

The political folly of an Individual leads, perhaps, to the whole of the EU in the crisis. This will not remain without consequences, regardless of how the British outcome, says DW editor-in-chief Alexander Kudascheff.

All of Europe stares and hopes that the British remain in the EU, that the Referendum on the Brexit goes out to the conclusion lightly. The whole of Europe hopes? Of course not. The opponents, the sceptics, the enemies of European Clubs – they are hoping for a “leave”. Because if the British leave the EU in a divorce, then of course this has a signal effect for the EU-sceptical governments, but especially for the anti-EU parties such as the Front National in France or the freedom party of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands. You have to remember in this context, just remember: In both countries, the founding members of the EEC was rejected in referendums, the first draft of a Constitution for the EU. And it is likely that both parties would try in the two countries, also the people decide to force through EU membership. The output: more than uncertain.

Reforms in the EU are urgently needed

So: Almost all of Europe hopes. To be more precise: the reason Europe is stressed. The white but still: Even if Britain remains a member of the EU, reforms are urgently needed. The response to a UK to “remain” will be a sigh of relief. But then the EU must start to think, like the abyss deep distrust “against can be overcome as in Brussels”. The purpose and Benefit of the EU must be clearer.

DW editor-in-chief Alexander Kudascheff

The feeling that the European political class acts as an aloof Elite, may not be the usual phrase rhetoric of “more Europe is now more urgently needed than ever,” met. The opposite is the case: You have stands, factually accurate criticism of failure in the EU and in Brussels – in the Commission, the Parliament and the Council should seriously take up. The EU needs Reform and it needs to give the citizens a new feeling of togetherness.

There are many factual and economic reasons why the UK is better to stay in the EU. And there are many factual and economic reasons why it is important for the EU, if the UK remains a member. World politics the United Kingdom to play without the EU, and the EU without the UK is at best a secondary role on the global stage. A Union without the influence of the British would be without a doubt less pragmatic, less liberal, less open and less market-believers, as the EU is now. And Germany would lose its most important Partner when it comes to conceive of the EU only as a money redistribution machine.

Complex issues to the Parliament

Whatever the outcome, one thing is for sure: The British Prime Minister David Cameron has exclusively intra-party reasons – to provide the skeptics in his conservative party, the Referendum, wanted and dared to. And he has plunged the EU into a fateful crisis. He has called those sceptical of ghosts, he wanted to actually get rid of it. He has lots of the fate of his country and the whole of the EU in the hands of a sense and totally unnecessary referendum. And even if the British decide to do so in a pragmatic and reasonable, as in many States of the EU, is hoping Cameron has worn a tear in his country. And he has led the foundations of the EU to their load limit. Politically, the decision for the referendum was therefore a folly. And the extremely emotional over the last few weeks – to the murder of the British members of the Cox – has only underlined, that such complex issues for the Parliament are good, but not for a referendum.

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