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...Dennis Brinkeback, Stockholm In your article, Europe's biggest problem appears to be the lack of global power to rival that of the U.S. and China. But in fact, Europe's biggest problem is extensive power over its citizens, who at the same time have almost no influence over Europe's political system. Europe's Foreign Minister, Catherine Ashton, says in TIME that democracy and human rights are Europe's ideals. We have not seen much evidence of that...
...necessarily a sign that democracy doesn't work. It is actually the other way round. Most people in Europe are not interested in removing political power from the national parliaments to the European parliament, where they have no influence over the decisions. This attitude actually strengthens democracy. Dennis Brinkeback, STOCKHOLM...
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