Crise de l'euro. Un déficit démocratique qui s'aggrave

The euro crisis. An ever-deeper democratic deficit

[The Economist]

The level of further integration necessary to deal with the euro crisis will be hard to square with the increasing cantankerousness of Europe’s voters

FOR the past six decades, steps forward to greater European union have taken place at moments of incipient crisis. None, though, has been taken in a time of disaster. The next leap in integration looks set to change that. All the plausible solutions to the self-inflicted mess of the euro crisis require a significant new level of fiscal and potentially political union, not least because some countries, such as Germany, actively want greater political union and see it as the price of their co-operation.
In order to make any such solution work, Europe’s elites will have to address a problem they have long shirked: that of the democratic deficit at the heart of integration. And they will have to do so under the worst of conditions.
Lire : economist.com