Quote Originally Posted by Tiaexz View Post
Which is why there should be efforts to make it "[both] accountable [and] representative", which has always been my argument. The ideological concept of a single currency is good. The ideological concept of replacing national governments with a European one is good. However, the EU is not implemented in this fashion mostly due to national self-interest preventing power from going to the European people away from the national political elite (with the backing of Euroscepticism) resulting in the corrupt mess politically and economically that is the current EU.
there is a reason why i highlighted both [and] and [both]; because i believe the two to be mutually exclusive when there is no sufficiently convergent [collection of] demos['s].

there is no european polity able to assent the legitimacy of european governance, therefore it's a non starter.