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Guy Verhofstadt and Richard Ashworth – Members of The European Parliament

Guy Verhofstadt and Richard Ashworth – Members of The European Parliament

The Interview vor 14 Jahren

Where is the EU project going and are the people of Europe behind it?

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Europe's economic crisis has pushed its governments further and
faster down the road of economic integration than many might have
expected.

But it is also raising serious questions about countries'
individual powers and identity.

At a time when the people of Europe say they've never trusted the
EU less what is the European Union's ultimate goal - to be a
federal super-state or a looser union based on common economic
goals?

Katya Adler has gone to the heart of EU business, Brussels, to
the European Parliament to talk to British Conservative MEP
Richard Ashworth and to Guy Verhofstadt, former Belgian Prime
Minister, now the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and
Democrats for Europe.

Where is the EU project going and are the people of Europe behind
it?

(Image: European Union flag Credit: Getty Images)