The EU Thinks Talking Equates to Accountability
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday as he reaffirmed that improving regulation is a core policy. “Regulating for the pleasure of regulating does not make sense,”
No it does not make sense, but that is not what is happening, what the EU regulation are about is moving power from the member state to the EU.
Along the same lines a study sponsored by the UK government suggested;
Improving the European Commission’s consultation process on new legislation would result in better rulemaking and make the European Union more accountable to its citizens.
This is a strange argument consulting is not accountability, the only way to make the EU accountable to the people is to acknowledge that the EU is not democratic and to do something about it. How about tearing down all the EU institutions and starting again, with democratic accountability at the very core of the EU.
No Demos, No democracy.
The EU will never have democratic accountability as there is no European demos.
What’s actually needed is LESS government.
Yes that is what all this talking to the people is about attemting to build an EU demos. Less goverenment now would`nt that be nice.