[lbo-talk] Europe versus America (Was NYT hires a new hack)

[Wendy Lyon]

On 02/01/2008, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:33 AM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:
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> > The EU isn't a country. It's the world's first -- but hardly last --
> > multinational democracy.
>
> What democratic control is there over the Eurocrats in Brussels? What
> real power does the European Parliament have? What share of the
> European pop thinks of itself as European before they think of
> themselves as French or Polish?

All good points.

Also, even accepting for the sake of argument that the EU is a
'multinational democracy', it's hardly the first.  The UK, Belgium,
Spain, Switzerland, Canada, Finland, Sweden, and probably others all
fit that description to one degree or another.