Athens News Does Not Understand European Union

I do not know if it is intentional or unintentional but Athens News is misleading its readership with regards to its comment on Greece and the Euro

An editorial today in Athens News contain the following statement

Critics may cry that Europe is compromising its democratic values, but they must not forget that the whole point of a fiscal and, by extension, a political union is, ostensibly, to ensure Europe’s prosperity and safety within a democratic framework. If the vision is a centralised, unified Europe transcending national boundaries, then ceding some sovereignty in the name of a fuller union is not necessarily an assault on democracy. In fact, it’s the way to a different type of democracy – one based on a United States of Europe

The lead editor claims that the ceding to soverignty to unlected officials is democratic. Papademos, Barroso, Ashdown, van Rompeu, Draghi (granted he is a banker) are not elected by anyone.

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To say handing power over to them is democratic is false. These people do not operate in a democratic framework.

Any decision which insulates politicians from the results of their actions makes things less democratic not more.

I undertsand that the piece was an editorial piece and an opinion but opinions must be based on undertsding the facts correctly, something which has no happened here.

I would recommend Nigel Farage’s book Fighting Bull. Farage is an MEP and gives the inside track on how the EU works

Also interesting comment here on the USE

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