Yes these are the same orders of the magnitude

Do you think that the current crisis may cause a breakdown of the euro area

I do not think that the eurozone is threatened. California, whose weight is more important in the United States than that of the Greece in the euro area, went bankrupt twice already! The hypothesis of a defect in the Greece is not to be excluded but would not have to come out so far. The euro is good news.

What do you think of the way in which European leaders have managed the Greek crisis

I make them two criticisms. To have lost a lot of time while the financial crisis had shown the crucial importance of responsiveness when markets lose confidence. And to frantically preferred a solution not community so that the Treaty provides for the possibility of European aid in exceptional circumstances. This is section 122 of the Treaty. Leaders have too long been a restrictive interpretation of this text for political reasons.

The crisis has revealed deep problems in the euro area

Especially, she revealed the failure of economic models of twenty countries on twenty-seven! Three storms - the financial crisis, economic crisis and the crisis of the public debt - hit economies already severely ill. First, there are cicadas, such as the Greece or the Hungary, who lived beyond their means. Then there are snails, such as the Germany, the Italy or the France, which have grown anemic between 1998 and 2008. Because the German model is a failure. The powerful export engine has not offset the shutdown of domestic consumption. These past ten years, the Germany did grew 1 on average and the economic and social well-being of its population has not progressed. There is finally doped them which, as the Ireland, the United Kingdom or the Spain, were good students but followed a model that was not sustainable. Most European countries have lost the secret of growth.

How get out of this mess

We need to reinvent our economic models. We need more simply to control a posteriori balances and the debt. We need to look at the content of our fiscal policies and look how the economic model of each contributes to the health of all. It would be a qualitative leap in European cooperation.

The time is rather to withdrawal...

I want to put European leaders face up to their responsibilities. They now hold a doublespeak: on the one hand, the ambition displayed the "2020 strategy" which aims to invest heavily in the future and the other sectors the fiscal timidity of Member States. If one considers that it is crucial to invest to get Europe to languish, then give the European budget the necessary financing. We have already more than no room for manoeuvre for financing as fundamental as Galileo, Iter projects or the Cleansky project.

How are will you you specifically

Are we at the table and look at how our budget can finance the projects of "Europe 2020". We will quickly discover that the European way is the only way out from the top of our national budgetary crises.

Do you have examples

Certain European policies are fully funded by the Community budget as the CAP. But for others, Europe provides significant funds in addition to national budgets. This is the case in research: the multiannual programme is EUR 8 billion per year (for the benefit of new energy, nanotechnology, biotechnology) while the 27 Member States finance their own research programs in the amount of ten times the European amounts without any coordination. A large number of these programs duplicate or are poorly utilisés. We identify very superior economic performance of the research.

You also mention the case of the policy of cooperation and development...

Yes, these are the same orders of the magnitude. Take Palestine: all European countries helping in total ignorance of that lend their neighbors. The crisis will finally enable us to be serious. We should also stop the great waste that we in the military field. We have no enemies, but we fund 27 armies and 2 million men in uniform. However, the Afghanistan is a symbol informing our military weaknesses. We can no longer afford to have ambitions beyond our means.