WSJ slams EU Democratic Deficit

The editorial from the respected Wall Street Journal may be read from here. The leader concludes: Libertas's announcement suggests the potential for other pan-European parties -- and, in turn, real pan-European debates about pan-European issues. There, not in revote after revote of poorly conceived treaties, lies an end to Europe's democratic deficit. Open Europe reports in its daily e-mail that President Sarkozy is apparently admitting the weak legal basis for the proposed Irish compromise:

PA reports that EU President Nicolas Sarkozy has admitted that "the problem is the legal form of those political commitments." He went on to say that an "Irish protocol" would be added onto Croatia's Accession Treaty, adding that the EU was not interested in re-ratification because, "we have no interest in solving one problem to create 26 others."