Europe: Is the Union over? – Head to Head – Al Jazeera English.
“There has been no unelected prime minister in Europe. We are not banana republics. We are democracies,” argues Viviane Reding, the former vice president of the European Commission and fierce defender of the European Union.
But are European institutions truly democratic? And are the EU’s austerity policies to blame for the rise of the far-right?
In this episode of Head to Head, Mehdi Hasan challenges the Luxembourg politician Viviane Reding and current member of the European parliament, on the future of Europe and asks why she believes that it is essential that Europe becomes a unified superpower.
We also explore whether Germany has imposed savage cuts on the so-called periphery countries, and whether the EU should take responsibility for the Ukraine crisis.
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