EU citizens don’t want an unelected superstate

THE Luxembourg prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, whose country currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, recently made the puerile statement that “nearly half the 454 million EU citizens have already backed the charter”.

He was referring to the constitution that would have formally relegated the nations of Europe to provinces of an unelected superstate.

Not so fast, Herr Juncker; it was backed not by the people of Europe, but by a few dozen politicians, not one of whom has engaged in full debate with their own voters.