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

[Guru गुरु]

On Friday 25 May 2012 02:46 PM, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message 
> <CAOLD2+bMfbctbqFejaL0jkrMrcfgKfMvhonkKWFaZ-wOqBgTCA at mail.gmail.com>, 
> at 11:19:21 on Thu, 24 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.
>
> Does that mean we can't take properly democratic global IG decisions 
> until there's "global governance" of some kind?

Yes. seems a truism to me.

How can we have "properly democratic global IG" without "global governance"
Though of 'what kind' is the key challenge before us....

regards,
Guru

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