I’ve written for UnHerd about the way in which, since the results of the European elections came in, euro elites have been scrambling to minimise their impact on the status quo — i.e., to democracy-proof the latter even more so than it already is. The idea is to “lock in” the EU’s institutional set-up for the next five years before the “populists” — mostly on the right but also, increasingly, on the left — make any more advances. What we are witnessing is an unholy alliance between increasingly delegitimised and democracy-averse national elites and the EU’s structurally anti-democratic regime, whereby the latter is increasingly deployed by the former against their own “populist” adversaries — and against the own electorates more in general.
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Yes, that is really THE only question: “for how much longer can Europe’s delegitimised elites continue to override popular discontent with “informal” dinners and horse-trading deals?” And I cannot even imagine the answer. Thank you, Thomas.