{"id":194872,"date":"2008-08-12T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/12\/out-of-the-mouth-of-der-spiegel\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:31:00","slug":"out-of-the-mouth-of-der-spiegel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/12\/out-of-the-mouth-of-der-spiegel\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Mouth of der Spiegel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, writing in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">der Speigel<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/europe\/0,1518,560549,00.html\">understands the problem with the proposed changes in EU organization<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The failed referendums are a signal that the elitist mode of European unification is, thanks to its own success, reaching its limits. These limits can only be surmounted if the pro-European elites stop excusing themselves from the principle of representation and shed their fears of contact with the electorate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the basic problem.  You create a, &#8220;referendum over a treaty that is too complicated to be understood,&#8221; and when it fails, the solution is to <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">eliminate the democratic element of the decision making<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J\u00fcrgen Habermas, writing in der Speigel, understands the problem with the proposed changes in EU organization: The failed referendums are a signal that the elitist mode of European unification is, thanks to its own success, reaching its limits. These limits can only be surmounted if the pro-European elites stop excusing themselves from the principle of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[984,964],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}