Article: Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day

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Article: Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day

The wife of the Polish Foreign Minister, political columnist for the British "Sunday Telegraph", Janet Daley, just penned her second article in as many weeks on the crisis of democracy in Europe. What's that all about? One would think that she had more direct channels to find the ear of the powers-that-be ... Her "rant" of 5 November 2011, on her paper's website, is titled "Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day".

Excerpt: "It isn't often that you are aware of the world order changing before your eyes. ... Welcome to post-democratic Europe. What an irony that the rise of freedom in the Middle East - the Arab Spring - should coincide with the acceptance of its decline in the West. (The European Autumn?) ... In peacetime, the voluntary renunciation of democratic rights is, so far as I know, unprecedented. But modern standards of prosperity have become so addictive ... that even the temporary loss of them may be too great a price to pay for an abstraction like political liberty. ... If you lose the right to choose who governs you - or allow some greater authority to determine the limits of their power - what recourse do you have when the promises are broken and 'security' becomes a prison?"

See also her article of last week: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109507108125539761871/posts/DwgRRBTd5yM?hl=en

Europe's democratic deficit grows wider by the day - Telegraph