Summary
When a few weeks ago people started to discuss whether Germany, like other countries, should hold a referendum on the new EU constitution, Berlin pressed the alarm button. Populism! bleated the government. The German foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, warned of 'anti-European resentment'.
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When Did You Last See Your Fatherland?
As everyone now knows, the European Union has a democracy problem. Its institutions are not only bureaucratic but also Jacobin in spirit, as the Italian commissioner-designate, Rocco Buttiglione, has recently discovered. This practising Catholic considers homosexuality a sin, and wondered aloud whether women who carelessly become pregnant are really good mothers. A committee of the European Parliament has therefore declared him unfit for office.
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