{"id":3076,"date":"2012-06-05T17:09:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2012-06-05T17:09:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T16:09:54","slug":"eu-democracy-creeping-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/eu-democracy-creeping-in\/","title":{"rendered":"EU democracy creeping in?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/the-triumph-of-politics-in-europe\">Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami<\/a> makes a good case that the slow advance of the European democratic will is starting to have an impact (hurrah, etc.): &#8220;Europe\u2019s experience has shown that the subordination of society to economic theories is politically untenable&#8230; Merkel\u2019s now legendary obstinacy eventually might have to succumb to the imperatives of politics. It is one thing to ignore European Commission President Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso\u2019s call for a more flexible economic policy, and quite another to dismiss out of hand the powerful message coming from French and Greek voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also makes a sound warning of the dangers: &#8221; Social vulnerability and frustration at the political system\u2019s failure to provide solutions are the grounds upon which radical movements have always emerged to offer facile solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami makes a good case that the slow advance of the European democratic will is starting to have an impact (hurrah, etc.): &#8220;Europe\u2019s experience has shown that the subordination of society to economic theories is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/eu-democracy-creeping-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-elections","category-eu-reform","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}