Points East and West
August 2008
It is no mystery that the structure of the European Union – with its largely unelected officials handing down sweeping regulations and laws to the member states through a complicated process that few in Europe fully understand – suffers from a certain democratic deficiency. When it tried to adopt a European constitution that would revolutionise the works and powers of its institutions, the document was undermined by two referendums, in France and the Netherlands, where the public voted overwhelmingly against.
Emanuele Ottolenghi writes from Brussels
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