Tusk: The spectre of a break-up is haunting Europe,

European Council President Donald Tusk said at a meeting of the leaders of the European Peoples’ Party (EPP) in Luxembourg marking the 40th anniversary of their group , slammed the EU leaders promoting utopian illusions of a united Europe for losing touch with the people. “It is us who today are responsible for confronting reality with all kinds of utopias – a utopia of Europe without nation states, a utopia of Europe without conflicting interests and ambitions, a utopia of Europe imposing its own values on the external world,” the former Polish prime minister said. “Obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration, we failed to notice that ordinary people, the citizens of Europe, do not share our Euro-enthusiasm. Disillusioned with the great visions of the future, they demand that we cope with the present reality better than we have been doing until now … Euroscepticism (has) become an alternative to those illusions.” “The spectre of a break-up is haunting Europe,” he said. “A vision of a federation doesn’t seem to me like the best answer to it.”