On the EU he writes:
For all its faults, the European Union is the world's most effective exercise in politicial socialisation. Through these endless meetings, where the new ministers spend more time with their fellow EU ministers than they do with their own families, they discover that the way you advance your national interests in 21st-century Europe is through negotiation and compormise, not 19th century grandstanding.
Finally we must understand the true meaning of Orbanisation. It's not that a single party governs for years with a good majority. Orbanisation means that this dominant party abuses that power to undermine the foundations of liberal constitutional democracy, which are theoretically a condition of EU membership
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I just googled 'Orbanisation' and couldn't find anything in the web. Is this a new word creation or wrong spelling?
I don't know where to start in relation to the EU...
Is 'political socialization' just another word for indoctrination? Is that great if we try to put everybody an standardized EU-shoe on?
I think Nigel Farage explains quite well the EU's understanding of democracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBBwhJx11Bc
By the way, did you know that the Lisbon Treaty (where the Irish were allowed to vote a second time to tick the right box ;-) ) introduced a EU-wide death penalty?
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.ie/2008/04/lisbon-treaty-introduces-eu-wide-death.html
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