The Greek Referendum Was a Ruse

There is therefore a crucial final step: to recognize that the European institutional weakness must be resolved in parallel with that of Greece. The euro area is not an arena for the survival of the fittest, but a complementary economic space in which different economies can benefit from their interdependence. Let’s open the debate on political union in the euro area, not behind closed doors in the Federal Chancellery or the Elysée, and not with documents made to buy time, but with the involvement of citizens in a project that affects them, before they all say “No.”