IETF WAS Re: [governance] Enhanced Cooperation (was Re: reality check on economics)

[Andrea Glorioso]

Dear Roland,

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Roland Perry <
roland at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:

> In message <CAOLD2+YumH_B8xOwQLSuHN7j8_**VZcfjsLgAfKzELntbWv-fF5w at mail.**
> gmail.com<CAOLD2%2BYumH_B8xOwQLSuHN7j8_VZcfjsLgAfKzELntbWv-fF5w at mail.gmail.com>>,
> at 14:27:40 on Wed, 23 May 2012, Andrea Glorioso <andrea at digitalpolicy.it>
> writes
>
>  How can one determine the legal and political responsibility of a certain
>> decision if such decision is taken by "humming"?
>>
>
> Democracy has some drawbacks, for example it looks like Greece (2% of the
> EU iirc) is about to vote to bring about the collapse of the Euro. Where's
> the fairness in that (for the other 98%).
>

Assuming this is true (and, for quite obvious reasons, I don't want to take
a position even on a personal capacity :) some would argue that this is a
consequence of the fact that while in the EU we have an economic and
monetary union, we still do not have a true "political union". Which is in
part what all the proposals on "European economic governance" are about.

Ciao,

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