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The Future of European Democracy?

Opinion: The Future of European Democracy - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International: "But Europe is the ever-more-convincing proof that domestic and foreign policy can no longer be separated from each other. Each member of the government who sits on a council of ministers in Brussels is simultaneously carrying out both German and European politics. Each German representative on a council should, in the best-case scenario, take the EU's other 26 members into account when making decisions. Naturally he or she has taken an oath to serve German interests."

Does Thomas Darnstädt want Germany to take command in Europe? Or does he want Slovenia to tell Germany what to do? Before he makes this comment he has said that EU is functioning through what he calls "Output democracy". Legitimacy from results not from what the people initiates as wants. He does not call this real democracy. It reminds me of Obama's speech in Moscow recently, where he also talked about evaluation of ideas from what works. Am I to conclude that the people are too slow and stupid to have a say?

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