Threat to democracy in Europe

[Baron von Biffo]

Well, we now have reason to believe that Monti intends to use his mandate the very same way Hitler used his mandate to rid himself of troublesome parliamentary oversight.

Then that's what we should be addressing rather than falsely claiming that he doesn't have a mandate.

[TotalMayhem]

Then that's what we should be addressing rather than falsely claiming that he doesn't have a mandate.

Well his validity of Monti's mandate is questionable, to say the least. An adviser to GoIdman $achs and the Coca Cola Company being appointed "Lifetime Senator", only two days prior to Silvio's resignation. And there were talks about bringing in Monti long before that and they had the loophole to make it happen.

[Baron von Biffo]

Well his validity of Monti's mandate is questionable, to say the least. An adviser to GoIdman $achs and the Coca Cola Company being appointed "Lifetime Senator", only two days prior to Silvio's resignation. And there were talks about bringing in Monti long before that and they had the loophole to make it happen.

The Czardas is something else though.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF9uQI-SRv4&feature=related"]Monti Csardas - YouTube[/ame]

[TotalMayhem]

Fiddling with arguments, aren't you?

[Baron von Biffo]

Fiddling with arguments, aren't you?

I was never one to blow my own trumpet.

[Greengoddess]

I think this s a good article from Jonathan Freedland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...icians-smaller

[riposte]

I think this s a good article from Jonathan Freedland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...icians-smaller

It was Greengoddess ...... but the universe has changed a lot since that was written.

[antiestablishmentarian]

Interesting that Monti feels he can be brazen about this trend. I think somethinglike the rule of unelected appointees was implicit in the EU from its inception. After all the EU os at its heart an economic construct where rights of citizens are subordinate to the four economic 'freedoms', free movement of goods, labour, capital and services. In a climate of crisis where the economic basis of the EU is in serious trouble and imperilling the workings of the Internal Market that pressure would be brought to bear on the democracy of peripheral atates where it is perceived that democracy could bring results incompatible with the interests of the European ruling class and where constitutional provisions for suspension of democracy exist which allow for the installation of leaders who are a safe pair of hands.

[Binn Beal]

Very true.
Has the Irish elite given up on the idea of appointing that nasty Sutherland as Taoiseach?