The issue remains: will the approach help Mr Juncker’s commission to get the «European» stuff accomplished while avoiding sticking fingers in things better left for member states to decide.
In run up to EU elections, Postimees asked for opinion articles by people aspiring to be commission’s president, to hear their stands. The conservative Jean-Claude Juncker’s piece «Ukrainian lessons» (PM, May 15th) centred on Europe’s single foreign and security policy. The same focus was chosen by candidates of sod dems and liberals. Asking experts to comment whether these were indeed the topics highlighted by the new commission, they said hardly – and surely the articles were meant to tell Estonian public what the latter deemed important. So thanks for the cold shower, experts, but we’ll take the man by his word. Estonia is interested in a one-voice Europe, one that decisively and quickly answers to authoritarian/aggressive neighbours.
It’s in Estonia’s interests that all basic EU freedoms really apply. People’s movement is fine, but for us it’s ever more important for goods and services to move unhindered. We want enterprises in Estonia to be unrestricted when entering other European markets. Meaning: that our people might live and work in their native Estonia. Here, there’s a role for Andrus Ansip set to answer for single digital market.