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A SUPERSTATE SPECTER STALKS.(A)(EDITORIALS)
If you can answer this question, maybe Anne Robinson won't scowl and drum you off the "Weakest Link" set. Here it is: Just what is the purpose of the European Union? Too fuzzy and rhetorical?
OK, perhaps the icy British import would glare at us for asking that one. Try it this way, then: Just what is the operating principle of the European Union?
Answer it, and you get to stay. Of course, you'll have the sole satisfactionof knowing that absolutely everyone else in the world, including Ms. Robinson,would be flummoxed by such a specific question.
If you tried to draw boxes and lines to describe how the Eurocrats in Brussels operate, your canvas could hang in a gallery devoted to the surreal.
The nonrational has become trendiest in continental politics. So much so that German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has drawn up a plan to impose rationality.
How about, say, unelected ministers? How about an "indirectly elected president and a two-chamber parliament with full control over public spending,"to quote the Guardian.
How about, ahem, a superstate?
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