Lopatka Welcomes Statement by Barroso

People ♦ Published: September 12, 2013; 18:12 ♦ (Vindobona)

Subsidiarity is the precondition for a successful European Union.

Lopatka Welcomes Statement by Barroso / Picture: © Flickr / The Austrian Foreign Ministry

With reference to the statement by President of the EU Commission Jose Manuel Barroso "The EU needs to be big on big things and smaller on smaller things", Austrian state secretary for foreign relations Reinhold Lopatka states: “With this statement, President of the Commission Barroso has captured an elementary approach for the functioning of the European Union. According to Barroso,…