COPENHAGEN – Is the European Union’s supposed “democratic deficit” now spreading to individual European countries in the wake of the sovereign-debt crisis? The rise of unelected technocrats to political power in Greece and Italy suggests, at least superficially, that the old taboo against technocratic governments pursuing an EU-dictated agenda has been shattered.
发自哥本哈根——假设中的欧盟“民主赤字”问题是否正借主权债务危机之机向各成员国扩散？至少在表面上，希腊和意大利国内非民选技术官僚在政治上的日益崛起已经暗示着：那条多年以来的禁忌——不能让技术官僚政府在政治议程上唯欧盟马首是瞻——已经被打破了。