Forget the United States of Europe, French ex-minister says

The European Union will never receive enough public support for federalism and so should abandon the idea of a United States-inspired superstate, says the influential French Socialist former minister Hubert Védrine.

Germans will never foot the bill and other Europeans will not accept the loss of sovereignty that a supranational state would entail, Védrine told EurActiv on the margins of the Organisation for Econonic Co-operation and Development’s New World Forum in Paris.