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Thread: EU elites "government for the people but without the people"

  1. 28th June 2008, 06:21 PM #1
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    EU elites "government for the people but without the people"

    I remember this famous quote about communism. Behaviour of both our own elites and elites around the EU i believe is appropriate to this famous quote.
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  3. 28th June 2008, 07:24 PM #2
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    Re: EU elites "government for the people but without the people"

    How? The EU tried to move towards a further democracy, but that movement has be derailed.
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    Re: EU elites "government for the people but without the people"

    Quote Originally Posted by The Collective.
    How? The EU tried to move towards a further democracy, but that movement has be derailed.
    The EU is moving away from democracy by ignoring referendum results it doesn't like.
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