Hi everyone and thanks for the comments and questions:
Brian: the spirit of the book is a mix of Polanyi and Hegel. In fact Polanyi's
idea of second movement is very Hegelian. Obviously our situation is markedly
different from what Polanyi witnessed in the 1930s. The similarity has to do
At 1:23 PM +0200 9/15/21, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
Dear David,
please, fact-check; this is incorrect:
the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is
the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials
You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in
fact
Hi Andreas,
many thanks for the detailed fact-check and yes I should have been more
careful.
I do recognise that calling the Commissioners "unelected" was simplistic
given
that there the EU parliament must approve the appointments presented to
them. But
if I am honest this generally seems
Dear David,
please, fact-check; this is incorrect:
> the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is
> the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials
You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact
elections and democratic confirmations:
"The
