On the other hand, there are domains like financial regulation and tax havens where each country can’t do much on its own, where the right level of intervention is clearly European. At the scale of the global economy, France and Germany are hardly bigger than Greece or Ireland. By remaining divided, we’re putting ourselves in the hands of the speculators and tax evaders. This is not the best way to defend the European social model.

That’s why it is urgently necessary to put Eurozone public debts in common, so that markets will stop imposing erratic and destabilizing interest rates on this or that country, along with the corporate tax, which multinational companies are evading on a massive scale. It’s those two tools, and those two tools alone, that must be mutualized and placed under the control of the federal political authority.