More fundamentally, economic integration could have been accompanied by the expansion of a European political space. Compensating for reduced national autonomy by creating room for democratic action at the European level really would have been a victory for democracy.
更基本的是，经济一体化本可以伴随欧洲政治空间的扩大。创造欧洲层面的民主行动空间，以此补偿国家自治权的降低，这才是民主的真正胜利。