European journalists: EU needs political reform

EurActiv ^ | 30 October 2012 | (EurActiv Italy)

[Olog-hai]

The economic crisis is a chance to relaunch European political integration and bridge the perceived European democratic deficit, the Association of European Journalists said at its 50^th international congress last weekend in Italy. …

Marco De Andreis, member of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, imagines a reform leading to a “light federation”.

Summarizing a proposal developed with Italian Senate Vice President Emma Bonino, De Andreis said that government functions such as defense, diplomacy, border control and management of trans-European infrastructure should be transferred to the European Union. In this way, Europe would gain advantages from economies of scale as well answer the need for more democratic legitimacy. …

[Olog-hai]

Uh, no—more centralization will remove your so-called “democratic legitimacy” and make things more totalitarian. (Guess they are angling to have permanent job protection, these so-called journalists?) Besides, this economic crisis was planned to induce all this centralization and destroy any semblance of democracy or republic.

[ryan71]

Too late. The communists and muslims have them in a stranglehold. They're done. Slow death.

[Olog-hai]

Muslims don’t have political power in the EU. They are there as a scare tactic to keep the people looking to push the government to institute more technocratic and totalitarian “reform”.

[Viennacon]

Journalists backing more autocratic changes to the EU! Who would have guessed? This is vomit-inducing. How many lives do they have to ruin?