In an interview with Politico, Mario Monti said “the EU is going through a crisis which leads me and others for the first time to consider whether we are not heading towards disintegration”.
“What I am concerned about is that, although the EU has developed itself historically through a process of crisis, response to the crisis, and advancement, this time around it may well not happen” he said voicing his concerns.
Monti clearly blaimed the European Council for the European Union's inadequacies: “Nobody could seriously pretend that the full-time EU institutions [the Commission, Parliament, European Central Bank, and European Court of Justice] are the ones responsible for the lack of adequate and timely responses to the present constellation of crises. That is the Council, in particular in its highest formation, i.e., the European Council”.
However, at the same time, according to Monti “over the past eight, 10 months for the first time in many years, we have seen the member states … saying, for the refugee crisis, the eurozone crisis, the fight against terrorism, ‘hey Brussels, this has to be a new function of yours’. We want to work on the simple logic that if there are new functions, maybe there should also be new resources.”