It wants a stronger state, a state that is strong enough to do without welfare schemes and other concessions to the demands of working people. To achieve that aim, big business has to weaken the democratic institutions regulating the governing of state power. That is the major reason, why leading businessmen all over Europe are so fond of the European Union. Irresponsible groups, the authors said, were assaulting governments with demands for better welfare, social equality, peace in Vietnam and other horrible things. You can't get all tied up with politics.
Industry has to take the initiative.
Progress was only possible by freeing state power from the shackles of national democracy. That is, by making a new major thrust in the development of the European Union. First of all, decision-making power is not even formally located in a publicly elected parliament. Major decisions are instead made in secret diplomacy by ministers from different governments. Secondly, the bureaucracy of the EU has a unique position.