European Renaissance: June 2005


Photo Rx for Europe's constitution: direct democracy
Those "no" votes in France and the Netherlands are a rejection not of the concept of European Union, but of tone-deaf leaders across the continent. Political elites in Europe are indeed, like Cool Hand Luke's Captain, guilty of a "fail-yuh... to communicate." But they need to lecture the voters less and listen more, as AdTI's Gregory Fossedal suggests in the start of a forthcoming series on fixing Europe, here.