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It really sounds like there is a need for more integration but of the democratic kind. A prime minister who screws things up at home should have no shot at bein

• vsl 10y ago
  That's how most of the Brussels bureaucrat got there, it's common in my country too. And it does mean the project is bankrupt — the people in power, the ones actually making decisitions (i.e. the Comission and to a lesser extentent, EP), are out of touch with the people (or, frankly, reality). National parliaments have very limited ability to affect things, most of the law is pushed down on them as EC directives. That's the very definition of a dysfunctional political system. Yes, EU needs to be more democratic, very much so, but "more integration" would only accomplish the opposite. More power to "local" parliaments would be more democratic, or making the European Parliament matter (i.e. be the sole legislative body, which it isn't now) and make it visible locally so that voters care.