Sustainable Integration: The silver lining of a democratically challenged EU

Summary:

Due to electoral cycles, national electoral democracies are almost always obsessed with short-term fixes, even though many citizens in fact care intensely about the long term. A chastened EU embracing the politics of time could set out to be the guardian of the long term for the sake of our children and theirs. This would be the silver lining of the EU’s perceived democratic deficit: democracy with foresight.

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