Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
the problem is, that no-one has asked the peoples of europe whether they are ready to become a single polity, with a single economic regime designed to pay for a unified welfare provision...............
Nobody was asked whether railroads and plumbing ought to have been build. Nobody was ever asked whether their countries should've joined NATO, the UN or the WTO. The peoples of Europe do not get directly asked a great many things.


They were all, however, without exception, democracies when they joined. Representative democracies are commonly accepted to represent the will of the people. All member states are representative democracies who joined of their own free will, and who remain a member as a free, democratic and independent state.