London (AFP) - former Prime Minister Tony Blair Thursday warned the EU that elle should elect a leader or face to be left in place by the emerging countries.
The Chief of the newspaper The Times, said former Labour party unless the adopted block "strong, collective leadership and direction", he eventually fled in the wake of China, the India and the Brazil.
Blair shrugged off public fears about more passing control in the hands of the institutions of the EU and called for a change in the perception of the role of the block of one as a peacemaker to one as a world superpower.
"For Europe, the essential thing is to understand that the only way you will get support for Europe today is not on the basis of a sort of post-war considers that the EU is necessary for peace," he said.
"For the generation of my children, it is just a bizarre argument." They don? t see as a real threat.
"What they can completely understand, is that in a particular world in which China will become the dominant power of the 21st century, it is reasonable for Europe to combine together, to use its collective weight to achieve the influence", he added.
The former leader source of discord, which was once considered a possible candidate for the position of President of the European Council believes that the responsibility of an elected leader given concerns about concentration of power.
"If you want to have a debate on the direction of Europe it seems to me very difficult to have Europe-wide, except if you have a few ways by which people choose something that is at the European level, in the nature"he says."
"Us have weight and influence a country like Britain needs unless we are part of this European power thus", he added.
Radical proposal for Blair, who admits has "no chance of being accepted at the present time", would see a leader who represents the interests of the EU on the world stage while at the same time chairs the union of the Member States.
Blair urged the completion of the single market and common policies on energy, defence, immigration and organised crime.
With regard to the "Spring of Arabic" uprisings courses, the Middle East Envoy warned that deeply rooted change required to implement to ensure that the disorder is not diverted by extremists.
"This is a situation in which you certainly need a plan," he said.
"If you get a situation where people get the right to vote, but no other change, no job, and then two or three years down the other line say that Islam is the answer." "If our task is not step to be spectators," he warned.
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