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Business Spectator

Europe’s para-democratic madness

06/03/2014
Far from being a celebration of democracy — the European elections are actually the second-largest democratic elections in the world after India — they will only emphasise what is wrong with Europe.

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Business Spectator

Time to end the EU’s travelling circus

22/08/2013
Just like Canberra, Brussels is not the world’s most exciting place. But if the European Union really cared about administrative efficiency, it would make it its proper capital and stop the Strasbourg travelling circus.

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Parliament without a people

10/06/2009
The elections for the European Parliament are at least as bizarre as the song contest. And just as nobody can remember last year’s Eurovision winners, the results of the EU elections are likely be forgotten soon after they are declared.

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