European officialdom is now responding to these deficits with an initiative to reform and democratize the European Commission.

MADRID For decades, critics of the European Union have spoken about a democratic deficit.

The EU s supposed democratic deficit is a corollary of the technocratic imperative that has emerged as a favorite scapegoat in the ongoing European drama.

The reform treaty that is to be adopted in 2009 is aimed at overcoming the EU s supposed democratic deficit.

A credible solution to the eurozone s current crisis depends on addressing this democratic deficit, but the crisis also provides an opportunity to do so.

The conflict in Darfur is also the result of a failure to ground the Sudanese State which came into being after independence from colonial rule in the democratic thrust of the whole nation.

Europe s democratic deficit is less a gap between European institutions and European citizens than between national politics and European problems.

Quite simply, EU politics has not kept pace with the scope and level of the Union s problems.

And allowing the ECB to supervise the banks before the European Parliament acquires the power to hold it accountable would only deepen the EU s democratic deficit and provoke a backlash.

At the same time, to the extent that the Commission becomes less a body of technocrats and more a political body, the so called democratic deficit will increasingly become a problem.

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Of course, the CDU FDP coalition may not be returned to power.

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The counterargument hinges on the difference between the current account deficit and the trade deficit.

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He is a member of the Workers Democratic Party.

That is how the turnaround of the economy took place by reducing the fiscal deficit and converting the external balance of payments from deficit to surplus.

Neither the DPJ nor the LDP appears dependable in any of these areas.

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So deficits grow.

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Its seventeen months in power before the current catastrophe have been a saga of struggle with career officials in many parts of the bureaucracy, including the judiciary, fighting for the survival of the world they have always known.

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The key reason for the DPJ s victory was that voters were fed up with the LDP.

A deficit reduction package crafted along these lines would more than meet even the most ardent deficit hawk s demands.

Thus, in order to keep the current account deficit stable, the trade deficit must shrink.

Japan s state prosecutor has, for example, accused Ichiro Ozawa, the General Secretary of the newly elected Democratic Party of Japan, of having received illegal funds to run the DPJ s recent campaign against the Liberal Democratic Party.

The International Centre for Democratic Transition (ICDT) is a non profit organization based in Budapest, Hungary which collects the experiences of recent democratic transitions and shares them with those who are determined to follow that same path.

As time passes, deficits accumulate.

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