All of this indicates that the euro crisis is a crisis of EU constitutionalism. The union has failed to strike the right balance between democracy and technocratic governance. It has failed to balance the needs of citizens and states in a highly diverse supranational polity.
German academic Fritz Scharpf famously asked 16 years ago whether EU governance could be both effective and democratic. Right now, it appears to be neither....nsnbc
Europe is heading towards constitutional crisis, with or without Greece
Nicole Scicluna | Lecturer in Politics and International Studies at University of Birmingham
It makes me wonder what Rational Man would have done.
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