We are prepared to work with the authorities democratically chosen or appointed in the member states’, says Dombrovskis.
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The
vice-president of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis has
assured that Brussels ‘has no intention of influencing’ the Catalan
elections which ‘are now really the decision of the voters’. The former
Latvian prime minister, commissioner for the Euro and Social Dialogue
added this today, after the community spokesperson, Margaritis Schinas,
warned yesterday that if a part of a member state becomes independent
‘the Treaties would no longer apply in the territory’ and ‘it would
become a third state’ that would have to ‘apply for membership of the
EU’. Dombrovskis reminded that the Commission ‘makes no comments’ on the
elections, and that it is ‘willing to work with the democratically
chosen authorities’.
‘Now it is really in the hands of the voters,’ Dombrovskis
admitted. At a breakfast on economic governance at the European Policy
Centre in Brussels, a journalist asked him about the consequences of the
Greek elections this Sunday and the plebiscitary elections of 27-S,
assuming that an independent Catalonia would remain out of the EU: ‘What
is your message to the Catalans?’
