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Secrecy at EU level is a challenge to democracy: Parliaments are increasingly being eclipsed by powers assumed at European level by Professor Deirdre Curtin

10 June 2013

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"The president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said recently: “More Europe does not mean more Brussels!” He did not say what more Europe does mean: more summits and less democracy.

"It means more private executive decision-making in various high-level summits by national leaders – more Europe as a “safeguarded sphere”, safe from popular democracy. The new zeitgeist is thus anti-democratic, even though there is an indirect link through prime ministers to national electoral processes."

Full article: Secrecy at EU level is a challenge to democracy: Parliaments are increasingly being eclipsed by powers assumed at European level (Irish Times, link)

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