SOS Europe: Outsourcing Democracy

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SOS Europe: Outsourcing Democracy
From the desk of Alexandra Colen

Are we still living in a democracy? As an elected politician I am probably expected to say that we are. But are we?

Two years ago, in January 2007, Roman Herzog, the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, caused quite a stir when in an op-ed article (http://euobserver.com/9/23250) (Welt Am Sonntag, 14 January 2007) he wrote that democracy in his country is virtually non-existent since the European Union (EU) has stealthily eaten away all the national parliament’s powers.
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A selected quote from the above article:


This means that a majority of Belgian laws emanates from the EU. It also means that only one single Belgian, namely Louis Michel, the Belgian member of the European Commission, has had a say over the majority of the laws imposed on all his compatriots. How democratic is this?

In a nutshell the EU is anti-democratic.