In an interview with the Times, the former President of the European Commission, Jacques Delors, has said that the EU is now in "a state of latent crisis" due to weak leadership.
Mr Delors said, "The men who took Europe forward had three qualities: vision, heart and a strategic realism. Today these are in short supply".
The 78 year-old Frenchman also swipes at his fellow countryman Jacques Chirac, criticising him for attacks on Poland and other future EU Member States.
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