For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy - James Joyner - International - The Atlantic
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George Washington University political scientist Henry Farrell puts it more soberly: “European politicians have preferred to integrate by stealth rather than public debate.”
Farrell argues that they have tried to “treat the rolling crisis as another, albeit much more complicated, technocratic problem, which can be solved through the usual kind of technocratic solution.”