Schulz: EU collapse is a 'realistic scenario'

The movement to build a new Europe, a better one, more democratic, more efficient and more powerful to the rest of the world is called federalism and should come from the will of European people to have a common future.

That is what the European Federalist Party wants to create by having members from all countries in Europe and participating in all the elections all over Europe. If there isn't a will from the people, nothing will be done or it won't be democratic.

The sooner the whole thing collapses and we revert to government within individual nations of people, by the people, for the people, the better.

The EU was always intended to be a near totalitarian system in which the views of ordinary people were to be ignored - witness Heath's statement on television "I have never understood why ordinary people bother their heads about these things - why don't they leave it to the politicians?"

Unfortunately for the self-selected, self-styled elite, when it comes to le crunch, there are far more "ordinary people" that elite few, and by sheer weight of numbers - in addition of course to being right, ordinary people across Europe are now making their voices heard increasingly loudly. and if they are not listened to, the noise will become louder still and more violent until freedom and independence are recovered.

The previous commentators have missed something - this was a directly elected person speaking - i.e. he was elected by his fellow citizens as an MEP - it is called - democracy. It could function better in the EU it does so badly because another bunch of politicians (the member states) are pulling back power for themsleves. I invite the commentators to consider the events of the past century when everybody "did their own thing" e.g. Germany circa 1912 had an ethinic cleansing plan for Eastern Europe (lebensraum) etc etc - I'm not pointing the finger at Germany - I'm giving it as an example of what was happening almost within living memory. The EU ain't perfect but it is much better than what went before.

I notice a number of cowards posting - why not use your full names - something to hide?

Mr Schultz has clearly been in Brussels too long. Schengen without FBI-like arrangements is not such a good idea.
The "Community method" is not as such the only good method. Summitization does not make the EU undemocratic, because national gov't ministers are sent there by their parliaments with mandates.
And when the European Commission asks for 7% more money at a time like this, they live too far away from eocnomic realities. The European Parliament can prove it really represents European taxpayers by blocking that.

Well Mike Parr he wasnt elected by me or anyone else in the UK . Who is he ? Some polition from a failed country who couldn't get elected at home so became a second rate MEP and having failed at home wants to tell the rest of Europe what the score is . Get real ,the EU though in its infancy had some good ideas is now just a gravy train for failed freeloaders of the political classes. The sooner it is consigned to history the better for us all

We salute Mr. Schultz's proposals!

Also, the best gift to EU that Merkozy along with Schauble can do is to resign for ever, all of the them! They almost destroyed EU. Sarkozy has my wishes to lose the second round of the French Presidential Elections as well as we wsih that Merkel will lose the 2013 elections in Germany!

Good luck to lose the elections Merkozy Sarkel!

PS.: Schauble is persona non grata for chairing the Eurogroup. The new chair must come from PIIGS or at least Southeastern Europe.

We call the present news portal to lobby in EU to create jobs in the PIIGS countries, yesterday!

Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation!!!

The only people that like the European Union are the ones that are making money out of it. EU Parliament, EU Commission etc and every Member of national Parliaments that are having their "wages" and vast Expenses, wonderful trips on the best 'planes' with first class service, and all they have to do is obey EU orders like the rest of us MUGS for still paying our taxes that allow all of them to take us for fools.

National Government have a choice to make, the people cannot afford any more to pay for national politicians as well as contribute to foreigners to do the job THEY have been elected to do. One or the other has to go. Make up your mind which. Time is running out.

i flagk a commentary by mystake. i as trying to answerSuede when he said ' I hope he's right and that a collapse is imminent. To hell with this Soviet 2.0, we want to be free again!

´.....well,if this as soviet unon e wouldn't be laughft at, in the corridors of dipomacy all over the orld..russiams,chinese, gulf arabs,americans..e are euromidgets,a and they have other term for us. also e ould hav a military alliane' but the EU has none of the above, it looks the ussr in 1991 that yes,becaause the neo-liberals we placed in chaarge of our countries are destroying the original EU (that neede to be improved) and replaced it by this neo-liberam dunn...i didn't sign in for this. you have an idea hat is living ith 77 euros a month, being a chronic patient (spine injury)? no fun an all..

FlorbdeFlorb: sadly there are no EU Countries "banding together" as you call it. There is only one Country in that band of brothers that is calling the tune. Here in the UK we have one person that has recently called for Germany to "To forget World War Two and help 'deliver firepower' for Nato and the West, and THAT came from British defence secretary Philip Hammond.

He perhaps should read some of what happened in World War two and NONE should ever forget it, and remember after the First World war people said THEN there would never be another war and none should ever forget that either-sadly they did. If none learn from History, that History will indeed repeat itself. I doubt there will be a World left after a third World War though.

Philip Hammond should resign from the post he presently holds. He most certainly should read the REAL History of World War two of listen to those that went through that War from all walks of life-WHILE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. HISTORY WILL INDEED REPEAT ITSELF IF THEY AND MR hAMMOND IN PARTICULAR, DO NOT LISTEN AND LEARN.

The people Kevin, cannot continue to pay for their own British Government to govern-which it cannot do as long as we remain in the EU-and also pay the many billions of British Pounds to a foreign organisation also? Those days have gone because we have already ""disappeared"" most of our money on paying the European Union billions of pounds each and every year since 1972 already. No wonder we are nearly 'broke'.

This Government has already set up EU REGIONS through the EU's Localism Bill, now Act, in England. Scotland is already an EU Region as is Wales, an extra layer of Governance this Country has never had before, nor needed previously and quite simply the people cannot afford it.

The idea is of course so that the EU's Committee of the Regions will directly govern THEIR EU REGIONS, cutting out our Government-in other words-has our government put itself out of a job?

It is not xenophobia Martin Schulz President of the EU Parliament, to want to close our borders, we simply cannot afford to pay for those that wish to come here because our borders no longer exist or because the EU wants to become one big STATE, especially when perhaps there isn't enough work to find for them-even if they did want to work which many do not. Perhaps it is time for our elected MP's to decide whether they want to govern our Country or not, because WE, the people can no longer afford to pay for a British Government that cannot Govern AND pay foreigners to govern it as well-which you may not understand is absolutely contrary to the people’s Common law Constitution. One or the other must go-which?