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"You cannot have democracy only when it doesn't hurt" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)

Real democracy: real communications

People have been complaining about the European Union's communications for as long as I have been writing about Europe. Indeed, they have probably complained for a lot longer than that. The public also complains about a democratic deficit - something that the new constitutional arrangements currently being finalised were supposed to address - but which, of course, they don't, or at least not to any meaningful degree.

Sometimes this lack of democracy is perceived as a lack of communica...

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"You cannot have democracy only when it doesn't hurt" (Photo: Peter Sain ley Berry)

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