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| German ex-chancellor Schroeder for sole EU finance minister |
| Wienna, 09.11.2013 |
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| Europe needs more integration, including a single finance minister for the bloc, if it is to remain competitive in the years to come, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urged Thursday.
He warned however that Britain would do its best to block any attempts to bring the 28-member European union closer together, which would imply handing over more powers to Brussels.
"The EU's political structure cannot remain static," Schroeder told an economic forum in Bregenz, in western Austria.
"We need... to press ahead with Europe's political unity, towards a kind of European federation," he urged.
Among other moves, the 28-member European Union needed to appoint a single EU finance minister who would have the power to discipline states that failed to obey the rules, such as during the recent debt crisis.
Schroeder warned however: "The problem has a name, and that's Britain. As long as the British block these moves, nothing will happen."
"The failure to implement steps that were decided four years ago by the G-20 in Pittsburgh to restrain the financial sector, has much to do with the City of London," he went on.
"Those who are willing to have more integration should not be bound by those who aren't."
Schroeder also called for Turkey to be admitted in the EU and for a closer partnership with Russia, if Europe wants to compete economically with the US and a rising China.
"Europe needs Russia's resources, and our economies needs its market," he said.
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![Foto : Ilustration
Schröder was born in Mossenberg, today an outlying centre of Blomberg, in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia. His father, Fritz Schröder, a lance corporal in the Wehrmacht, was killed in action in World War II in Romania on 4 October 1944, a few months after Gerhard's birth. His mother, Erika, worked as an agricultural laborer so that she could support herself and her two sons.
Schröder completed an apprenticeship in retail sales in a Lemgo hardware shop from 1958 to 1961 and subsequently worked in a Lage retail shop and after that as an unskilled construction worker and a sales clerk in Göttingen whilst studying at night school so as to gain a high school diploma. He did not have to do military service because his father had died in the war.[1] In 1966, Schröder secured entrance to a university, passing the Abitur exam at Westfalen-Kolleg, Bielefeld. From 1966 to 1971 he studied law at the University of Göttingen. From 1972 onwards, Schröder served as an assistant at the university. In 1976, he passed his second law examination, and he subsequently worked as a lawyer until 1990.
Among his more controversial cases, Schröder helped Horst Mahler, a founding member of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group, to secure both an early release from prison and permission to practice law again in Germany.[2]
Schröder joined the Social Democratic Party in 1963. In 1978 he became the federal chairman of the Young Socialists, the youth organisation of the SPD. He spoke for the dissident Rudolf Bahro, as did President Jimmy Carter, Herbert Marcuse and Wolf Biermann. In 1982 he wrote an article on the idea of a red/green coalition for a book at Olle & Wolter, Berlin; this appeared later in](/foto//f_03286_m.jpg)