The eu’s Legitimacy in the Eye of the Beholders

Propositions

1. 
   Legitimacy is in the eye of the beholders.
   

2. 
   Nationalism has not left the European continent.
   

3. 
   The discourses prove: even supranational politics are local politics.
   

4. 
   The EU is a faceless order.
   

5. 
   The democratic deficit is a misinterpretation.
   

6. 
   More federalisation will lead to less identification.
   

7. 
   Democratic improvement? No, Europe needs a reality check.
   

8. 
   The mass media distort both willingly and by accident.
   

9. 
   The incoherency of Gaullism fits the reality of the EU.
   

10. 
    Timothy Garthon Ash is right: [The EU] if we did not have it we would have to invent it!
    

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