On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM, James Heartfield
<Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
. . . >
> Hardly. First off Europe's socialists and communists participated in parliamentary democracy throughout the twentieth century. Secondly, the European Union makes no pretence to democratic accountability of any kind. If you were to map the EU onto the American Political System, the Congress would lose all power to make legislation. Executive power would pass from elected president to something halfway between the Federal Reserve and the Supreme Court. And forward policy planning would be cooked up in a meeting run by Governors' secretaries.