
The EU Doesn’t Want to Be More Democratic
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The Brussels establishment is rejecting attempts to make it more transparent and accountable to voters.
The European Union has had a democratic legitimacy problem for years: Its governing bodies — with the exception of those that consist of national leaders and ministers — are neither particularly responsive nor accountable to ordinary European voters. And, as the latest failed attempt to reform them has shown, they like it this way, for all the rhetoric about the need to overcome the democratic deficit.

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