Richard Werly
Richard Werly, (b. 1966) has been the Brussels correspondent of Swiss newspaper Le Temps since 2006. Before then he was the paper’s Southeast Asia correspondent.
Sources and authors
By Richard Werly
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9 April 201227Le Temps Geneva
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Institutions
Maastricht 20 years on: Eurocrat blues
6 February 201211Le Temps Geneva -
European Union
Without the South, the North loses Europe
27 July 20118Le Temps Geneva
Their mission: to bring the Greeks onto the path of budgetary virtue. Their method: to shake up established practice and insist on sacrifices. The risk: they may be targeted by anyone with a gripe against the EU. 
The European Commission and its civil servants gained unprecedented powers with the signing of the Maastricht Treaty on February 7 1992. Two decades later, the economy’s primacy over politics and the advent of the crisis has destroyed their dreams and turned them into scapegoats. 
The countries of southern Europe are facing huge problems. But this no reason to neglect them or shove them towards the exit: the fate of the EU is linked to its southern countries, writes a reporter from Le Temps.