The Copenhagen hope: on democracy in the EU

... the future of the EU. A deeper issue - which is, however, just as clear - is one of credibility. How is the EU to continue to see itself as a normative power, one that sets and promotes the norm - that is, of course, the basic values: democracy, the rule of law, and human rights including the rights of minorities - if one or more of its members, and therefore the Union as such, does not abide by that very norm? It can’t, of course, not without being laughed at. The lion’s teeth But it can’t ...