A crisis of democratic legitimacy in the EU
Simon Jenkins (Europe is returning to national identity, 16 September) suggests that a weakening of the EU and a corresponding breakup of the eurozone is not just a possibility in the current deep political and economic crisis but is inevitable: «It [Europe] is turning back to national identity and there is nothing the EU can do to stop it.» Ignoring the likely major, devastating and global economic implications of such a breakup, Jenkins bizarrely suggests this could be David Cameron’s «historic opportunity to draft a new European dispensation».
09/9/2011
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: democratic legitimacy, economic crises, EU
