Europe's disreputable system for 'fixing' its president - by David Price
"Europe needs an ethically robust system to choose a real leader with civic guts and moral courage," writes David Price, founder of the Schuman.info website, in a July post on Blogactiv."It is a damning commentary on the democratic ethics of the 27 governments of the EU that they choose the president of the European Commission in secret, without any recourse to democracy," Price writes. "It is far, far from the democratic principles that Robert Schuman announced sixty years ago," he explains, adding: "It is a far cry from the principles of human rights that Schuman and others formulated in 1948-50 and set as European law."
"How should Europeans elect the European Commission? Who should be Europe's leader? Shouldn't all Europeans be involved in the election?," Price asks.
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