To suggest that Brussels engineered the downfall of governments in Italy and Greece is a distortionThe EUs allegedly undemocratic nature has become one of the most potent arguments in the coming referendum. It is a rallying cry for Eurosceptics of right and left.
Boris Johnson has slammed the EU for being “increasingly anti-democratic”. Iain Duncan Smith,another main Tory Eurosceptic, says he was horrified when Silvio Berlusconi, and the former Italian premier,was replaced by an administration of unelected technocrats in 2011. He told the Sunday Telegraph he raised the topic in a cabinet meeting: “I said, am I the only one here that feels distinctly uneasy approximately broad Brother turning around to the elected government and saying, or you must travel?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com