Een revolutie in het geheim

Athony Coughlan in Lisbon - A constitutional revolution by stealth?

Although the Lisbon Treaty has given the EU a Federal-style Constitution without most people noticing, there is no European people or"demos" which could give democratic legitimacy to the institutions it establishes and make people identify with these as they do with the institutions of their home countries.

This is the core problem of the EU integration project. Lisbon in effect has made the EU's democratic deficit worse.

It is hard to imagine that this will not make struggles to reestablish national independence and democracy and to repatriate supranational powers back to the Member States the central issue of EU politics in the years and decades ahead.