French President Emmanuel Macron echoing the recent speech by the EU Commission President Jean Claude Junker has called for wide ranging and much closer “integration” across the EU.
Speaking at Sorbonne University in Paris, Macron laid out his vision for the future of the political bloc, including a common EU identity card, combining militaries and undertaking joint foreign interventions, as well as a much greater transfer of economic powers form individual member states to the EU elite.
The goal of a centralized, quasi Super-state that is shared by many EU leaders will have to contend with growing opposition. Many are challenging the plans based on their fundamentally anti-democratic nature and militarism.
Also, as demonstrated with the success of Brexit and the rise of the AfD party in Germany an EU-skeptic nationalism is on the rise across the continent.