EU "sucks up decision-making", UK's Hague says
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Britain is increasingly disillusioned with the European Union which it sees as a "machine that sucks up decision-making", Britain's foreign secretary said on Tuesday in prepared remarks. -- PHOTO: AFP
LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain is increasingly disillusioned with the European Union which it sees as a "machine that sucks up decision-making", Britain's foreign secretary said on Tuesday in prepared remarks.
"People feel that the EU is a one way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments," Mr William Hague said in an advance text of a speech to be delivered later in Berlin.
"...That needs to change. If we cannot show that decision-making can flow back to national parliaments then the system will become democratically unsustainable," Mr Hague said.
The criticisms of Europe are some of the strongest to be voiced by a British government minister in recent months.
