In a single week the elected governments of two of Europe’s democracies had been swept aside. At the very moment that Italian and Greek people needed to deal with the problems they faced, they were robbed of the chance. ... Fear of economic crisis is driving the integration of European policy, and it is not being consolidated as a democracy, but as a technocracy, where officials follow procedures, rather than make policies.
http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/guest-post-europes-soft-coup-detat-part-1/
http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/guest-post-europes-soft-coup-detat-part-2/