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The EU is an antidote to democratic governments, argues President Barroso

By Alliance Alert

Daniel Hannan writing at his Telegraph blog: "The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Durrão Barroso, has offered one of the few utterly honest arguments for European integration. The reason we need the EU, he suggests, is precisely because it?s not democratic. Left to themselves, elected governments might do all sorts of things simply to humour their voters: 'Governments are not always right. If governments were always right we would not have the situation that we have today. Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on October 01, 2010 (boomark / email).